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Show MAY HAVE BEEN BLOWN UP ON TRIP Salt Lake, Nov. 5 It is feared by relatives of Soren Nelson of this city that ho and a companion named Johnson have met with some mishap at or near the Buckhorn mining properly prop-erly in th6 Deep Creek district. On September 14, Nelson and Johnson John-son left here to drive a fifty-foot piece of tunnel for the Real Buckhorn Mining company, Nelson announcing before he left that he and his companion com-panion expected to run about three feet a day, which would bring them home about October 1, or In sixteen days. Fifty days have elapsed and no word has been received from the men. Nelson and Johnson carried with them a quantity of dynamite and tho customary caps for blasting purposes. It Is now one of the fears entertained enter-tained by relatives and friends that in transporting tuv explosive up through the gulch tho cargo may have been set off and the men suffered suf-fered death as a consequence. Another An-other fear is that, although the men may have reached the Buckhorn ground In safety, some accident may have happened to them in the mine. The Buckhorn property is located in an out-of-the-way spot, the only man In Salt Lake who would be likely to visit the place being nan Eagan, who spends most of his time at a mine prospect some distance, awaj from tho Buckhorn However, In going to or coming from his own ground Mr Eagan. seldom gOfs down into the gulch through which Nelson Nel-son and Johnson would go to reach the Buckhorn. In view of these facts, and because Mr. Eagan Is now out working on his own ground, some apprehension is felt here tor the Batet) ot the two overdue men Nelson and Johnson are more than thirty days behind tho appointed time of their return to this city, and inasmuch as no possible cause for so long a delay can be conjectured by Friends in Salt Lake, fear Is entertained enter-tained that something untoward must be happened to them. Mr. Nelson is an unmarried man, but Is well known in mining circles In Utah, and because he Is always methodical and comparatively prompt to promise in his movements, the present wide lapse Is taken as legitimate legi-timate cause for alarm. In the event that Nelson and Johnson do not return to Salt Lake this week, or If no word shall in the meantime be received from them, a searching party wll be sent out to make Investigation. rn 1 |
