| Show ONE GREAT GOLD STO 91 palmer says san juan placers are very poor ill EXPERTS investigation down own colorado river in a boat u las ina its bravel gravel bars report to rio 1 grando grande western westerns s president general palmer president of 0 the rio grando grande western is is 01 on I 1 the tile boist his visit there lias has beon been diversely hers dy coin merited titon ind and ono one prominent rait rail road ilan says it ina nican tile re oi e n ing ing of negotiations between tho south ern pacific and rio grinde grande western and end in ill the absorption absorb tion of tile later 1 itley road by the former and the exten extension ion ot of the malinit Pa linit branch of tho the western into I 1 the south to tap tho the rich mineral und and coal districts of dixie whatever Alu teer ver bo be lila his business the getie tal lias has found time to talk to tho the reporters rc mid and tho the examiner I 1 caminer has bas tho the following antei interesting resting interview on the ban san juan G xe NV J 1 aimer palmer president of or tho the 1110 ni aurande tran e western railroad railroad imd and a prom figure in ili western railway circles has conic over frani utah oil a brief visia to this city and los angeles hie the general beneral recently sent P F greene green e a an ex florl ng en on gi gincer 1 and a member of I 1 ills ii IS 0 official staff lo 10 mako an all investigation into in to tin tile recent poll gold lilan mining ng excitement in ill the bin juan count country y in ili I 1 southern utah mr oreene greene has lately mado made a report to hun jilin and ili it talking about it yesterday ho he aid vaid air mr oreene has report reported od to me tile that tho excitement of last december and january over the san juan gold placers beers ww v as a false alarm lie ile found oil personal investigation that roll gold did not exist titi titles the tile story having been made out of whole cloth according to hia his report it appears that there is a small of fine r gold old in the tile B san a ii juan river on oil the bench on either si ie of it and in th the a strata of clay winch which run tull through tho the sandstone sand tone formation this gold baa has been known to ehlt for years having been acted I 1 for by miners as lone long as thirty years ago but it is of such a character and of each fineness une that no ordinary process will save it I 1 in n panning or using a rocker it la Is so light thai that consia considerable erable ot it escapes before the black sand is washed off men lien working with either process could not riot possible possibly e make inake sufficient fort for the he purchase 0 ot f ordin ary supplies aside froni from wages arx WM chib I 1 b on his tour of investigation ahon mr greene and his party examined the gavel gravel bara bars on the tile colorado river for a distance dia tance of forty miles in a boat down dow n the river he ile started from north wash four miles ralles above dandy crossing dairty thirty two bara were investigated investigate da and lid he personally par pan ned oat out gravel on oil a number of them thein 11 I 1 no case was there a barren pan the leas least numbers of colors to a pan running croul forty to fifty and as high as loo colors ile II 11 the gold is i quite fine title but that there silo should I 1 d be no difficulty in ili savine it he ile estion estimates ates that the different bare run froni an ail average of 25 cents to 75 cents 9 a cubic yard 1 ho ie instances in the case of 0 two men who aro are now borki working on the california bar on oil a portion of TF ft where 11 1 or he gold is finer than the average averal ile ite lie saya says these men ar are e making makin wages though using a crude ro rocker acker alif and having haying to handle ban lie the gravel i three dinies they have taken out in the regular course of their work 1040 10 40 from seven cubic varda of gravel mr arcene in detail then lepor ts that the placers continue down the aver for a di distance e of a hundred miles the grava 13 being very regular in ili size and there no boulders of a weight but what ono one mail could easily remove them thern ile a p alro axi cubed the contents of the thirty at two bara bars he investigated and found th that chev contained ILI about olit cubic cal bic yards which at an value of 25 centa cents cubic yard wc would gilld result in a money alue value of jio lie thinks th tho I 1 source of the gold on the colorado r river ive r is from tho the henry mountains and ho be also 0 noted that the gold appeared to be equally or evenly distributed distribute af reared throughout the gravel as there beamed to bo be but little difference in value whether tests were taken from close to the surface midway in down dov n or r close to the bed rock il ho was informed that working tests gave the same results mr greene did not visit the henry mountains but he lie says it ie its reported that I 1 there are 2000 acres of unusually rich placer gravel on oil their east cast slope elope gravel which will run from 1 to 12 per cubio cuble I 1 yard the difficulty there hae has been a lack of water and the tile gra gravel has been wo worked aked by the dry process he ile thinks this spot will become en all active scene of operations in fil the spring for quite qui to a number of men mell have already gone th there ere other men he says I 1 who intended ting going into the ban san juan country are now wa waiting it ting at green river for the tile cold weather to pa pass 53 by in order to get into the lienay mountains |
