Show IGNI KAS AGAIN The New Gold Camp in the TJintahs No Fake HOW TO GET THERE What Ono is Likely See When he Arrives Ar-rives on the GroundThree Hundred Men In the DampThere is Every Indication In-dication of a Bier Gold Country Very Readable Letter Indeed To the Editor of THE EVENING DISPATCH Much has been written during the past few weeks about the gold find in Uintah county but a few more words may be acceptable from one who has been on the ground and has seen the pre ported rich discoveries To arrive at the gold fields from Provo the best route is up Provo canyon and Strawberry Straw-berry valley to Ft Du Chesne From the fort you go to Deep Creek where you are compelled if you have one to leaye your wagon and proceed the balance bal-ance of your way twentyfive miles on horse back A wagon road has not as yet been made from Deep Creek and only an indistinct trail leads to tbe prospective camp It is expected however that a road will soon be constructed as it can be done for a very few hundred dollars dol-lars The last twentyfive miles of the distance is through a forest of pine trees but the elevation is so gradual that once a road is made travel to the mines will be without difficulty The very ia about forty miles north ff Vernal the county seat of Bounty ajd right a on the top fe tjlnrfrs > 5ja 1 fey liundied q ilSOf the ad Man claim one can view een river and the southwest corner of Wyoming In fact the strike is not more than fifty miles from Carter sta tion on the line of the Union Pacific railroad and if a wagon road was constructed con-structed in a northeasterly direction for a distance of fifteen miles from the mines it would connect with a well i traveled road leading to the U P railroad rail-road Indications are that should the camp prove a success most of the traffic will be over the route last indicated unless the R G Western builds a branch line which could easily be done At present there is much speculation as to whether or not the strike is a fake from my personal observation 1 am convinced that it is not and that a flourishing camp will soon be in operation At the Dead man claim a trench about 2 feet wide and twenty feet long has been dug across the vein and the walls of the claim have not been encountered and throughout the face of the trench can be seen the streaks of ore dipping into the hill in a manner indicative of permancy One week ago there were mlly 300 men prospecting in the vicinity vicin-ity of the first locations and for a distance dis-tance of twenty miles along the top of the mountains every piece of ground or ro < k supposed to contain mineral has been located In several places considerable consid-erable work has been done and ore of some kind has been found but in a majority of instances up to date from these prospects no reliable returns have been made so that at present much uncertainty prevails This much however how-ever is proved that nearly every piece of rock in that country contains some gold and by old miners it is confidently confident-ly stated that while no big returns may be forthcoming at present that the claims will surely improve as they are worked The owners of the Deadman and the Great Western claims assert that they will have a mill there and in operation before autumn is here and already are they selecting their mill sites and outlining out-lining their roads and contemplating all the necessary arrangements to make a new camp Throughout this entire mining country there is an abundance abun-dance of water and any quantity of wood The snow does not fall very deep until the months of February and I March but tbe old mountaineers of that locality say that a road to the mines can easily be kept open during the entire winter season The strike is above timber line and surrounded by pleasing scenery There are plenty of flats and small valleys with silvery lakes filled with mountain trout Wild came abounds in all this mountain region bear tracks are more plentiful than the whiskers on Doc Norrells face The afr is light j the nights cold and pleasing showers are of daily occurance In all respect the discovery bids fair to become a great camp and if successful success-ful it will surely have the effect of opening the entire Uintah reservation thus giving the gold hunter more fields to explore the farmers new homes and the territory one or two additional wealthy counties > GNI ENs |