Show L FAKE uple of months since or more e duskcovered tramp worn prospectors pros-pectors mad their advent into this city There was a pleasant air of mystery mys-tery and self satisfaction about them I which gave promise of something interesting in-teresting if not profitable in sight They came here in the afternoon but it was jiot until the next morning when whispers of a narrelouB strike began to limited about During theday it i was asserted that the Enoch Davis mine in the TJiutak mountains had been discovered and that these three commonplace appearing prospectors were the lucky men Specimens of the find were sparingly passed about Soon assays running as high as 366 per ton were shown People began to be excited ex-cited Groups of eager men met on the street corners to estimate how long it would be until they could count their wealth by the millions These inno cant prospectors needea a few hundred hun-dred only to develop the millions Among our enterprising people the necessary sum was soon made up A resort was then made to Salt Lake Several gentlemen there and another from south Utah were attracted to the scheme Probably fifteen hundred dollars was soon raised and all the machinery a big mining company was organized and at work Expert miners were sent over to the Uintahs and the work of taking out the rich gold ore was begun Ore was s nt to Provo and Salt Lake for assay It still returned the figure in gold which it reached here on the first effort Then other men and facilities were dispatched dis-patched to the region Things went in this way for several sev-eral weeks ihe pleasant mystery continued All at once the tatal word fake began to be applied Then came the other more fatal word galled Men began to inquire At firat it was extremely difficult to get expression from any one This noon passed away and it was boldly charged that the whole scheme was but IL bold case of fraud of the moit shameful character What renders ren-ders the affair so very mysterious is that th achemora the innocent pros pectora themselves did not get much more out of the salt than it had originally cost them in hard money they throw in their labor and hard shipsas good measure It finally de reloped that the ore had been treated to a bath of chloride of gold The assayer then recalled the fact hat In every assay showing over a trace of the yellow metal there were chlorine gasaes discovered and in those specimens showing only a trace the chlorine could not be detected This shows beyond a doubt that I fraud was perpetrated fraud of the baldest character The perpetrators are all wellknown Utahprospectora The net results are that about fifteen hundred men from first to last went into the Uintahs and much valuable time and money has been expended all to no good Lynching has been talked of arrest tad punishment discussed but up to this nothing has been done Some adequate ad-equate punishment should be me ted out to men who for money would put such a fraud as this on the people u That this punishment will yet overtake over-take them if their final guilt is ever ascertained we hope and firmly be believe Those gentlemen who have Buffered most should move in the matter mat-ter at once before qther and similar schemes are devised and carried out THE DISPATCH would be glad to know that this salting business was wholly untrue and that the Uintah gold find is all that it ought to be yet it fearo the worst |