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Show The gold scare at Nephi is not of huge demensions although there is a whole mountain of the stone in which the gold is found. Some two or three years ago JohnW. Morehouse, well known in many circles, had an assay made of the sand stone located just at the mouth and on the west side of the left fork of Salt Creek canyon some five or six miles from the town of XTv: i ; , .:ii n.. , aujk ijjjuieuitneiy uu me line oi the Sanpete Valley railway. Parties who have been through the canyon will perhaps remember the "needleB" just below the Jenkins rock salt beds. Any piece of that sand stone will assay in the neighborhood of $2.00 per ton in gold. The gold can be washed out, but is exceedingly fine and light and difficult diffi-cult to saye. At the time Morehouse had the assay made it was thought mere was not goia enougn in the rock to pay for working. This winter there has been so much talk of the cyanide process and other cheap ways of working work-ing gold ore that prospectors have gone again to that location bent upon investigating in-vestigating and ascertaining whether or no the rock cannot be worked profitably. pro-fitably. Wm. II. Hyde was among the first to go. He dug into the side of the mountain for some distance and found some stone that ran consider-aby consider-aby higher than that taken out by Mr. I Morehouse it ran between $4.00 and $5.00 to the ton and was comparatively quite easily washed out. At once he got relatives and friends interested with him. A tent and outfit was taken up to the grounds and some deveWik ment work done. Practically alj' ! ( f r |
