Show am ham 4 martn III t v VISITED THE AMERICAN FLAG aco H watson one of salt lake cites leading brokers was a visitor in the park the first of the week eek spending some time 11 the american flag the gentleman reported conditions very promising at that property and predicts a great future tor for it encouraging IMPORTS FRONI KA KALIS PROPERTY word received this week from ohp the property 0 of the beaver creek mining pany near kamas was to the effect that the tunnel Is now in seventy feet and the face of same heavily mineralized with tale talc and crystals coming coining in which tho the miners think Is an indication of gold the promoters are much enthused ov over c r present conditions GUY R mckay ASKS IS THERE GOLD IN THE M MOUNTAINS I 1 in the issue of april ol of the mining journal of phoenix arizona mining engineer ouy guy R mckay of this city has an interesting and instructive article under the caption Is there gold cold in the tha uintah mountains the article teems with stories of rich gold discoveries told by the indians by the old settlers ot of the wild and uintah mountains ol of many of the stories relate to alleged rich finds and burying of gold by the ln in deans in the close vicinity of the kamac camas valley and it Is not impossible that the th property now being worked by the beaver creek mining company above referred red to might be the territory where gold was wa found by the indians who met brigham young and his pioneers at platte river and who were on friendly terms with the lamed fed mormon leader ai aticy r his arrival in the great salt lake csuy let us all hope so and that the reported gold de posits will again be and sumi raft county be made famous and rich in consequence excerpts from mr mckays art article icleT follows these be parlous times 1 competti engineers who have devoted their careyii caleel to winning base metals from the earl ear i are worrying about shoes for the kidd kuddes LIS and next weeks meals men who havoc always held good jobs are living on the slim savings of former opulence borrowing on their insurance policies and wondering when something will break tor for them hence the lure of gold mining comes to the anxious engineer and he wonders it f there Is not some way to break into that game he talks to halry faced prospectors pec tors each of whom has the seat out of his pants and Is on the verge atil 0 tremendous gold strike he loads load a up the old bus with gas and visits several almost inaccessible places which he has been told are lousy with gold he tramps barren hills thirsts on desert alkali and comes home to an irate wife with blast ed hopes a sunburned sun burned nose and worn out shoes to him I 1 sing not to the captious old fossil who insists upon technical accuracy in his reading but to the young fellow of whatever age who still believes in fairies ghosts and witches who dreams 0 of antiguas antl guas lost mines and the happy day when some hoary old indian will lead him to a cache of 0 gold dont lot let anyone tell you that the gold has all been found that the romance of mining engineering Is dead or that the business of mining has degenerated into standardized bookkeeping nothing of the sort hark to the tales of the wild picturesque and uirl fahsl since this Is not a technical discussion I 1 shall not concern myself with the geological and features of the uintah mountain range except insofar as is necessary tor for an understanding of what follows 1 4 the range lies in the northeastern part of utah and Is bounded approximately by the wyoming and colorado state lines from which it extends south tor for 30 miles and east tor for miles to within a dozen miles of park city it Is a broad flat elongated dome with a central core consisting chiefly of red cambrian quartzite with occasional precambrian pre cambrian exposures surrounding the cambrian Is a ring of Pale paleozoic lime stones and which have not yet been differentiated sipplen fossils ila have e been found in several places the tee western raining mining man Is at once struck by the even uninterrupted dip of the bedding planes the scarcity of faulting and fissuring assuring and the lack ot of any indications of igneous activity butler reports that he found numerous dikes of rock la in the eastern part of the range but I 1 have found no exposures or evidences of igneous rocks in my short excursions into the central part the absence of those features which the average mining man associates with important ore deposits had lead him to co come me look once and leave la in disgust or more commonly to take so word of the conditions and never look consequently little prospecting has been done and that little by farmers and sheepherders I 1 am not saying that the mining men are wrong although I 1 find certain conditions which interest me considerably sider Ider ably it will be well to keep their attitude in mind however while reading what hat follows there to la living near the village of al tonah on the south side of the range a very old indian by the name of Tou he ha I 1 Is 3 the last of the old bad indians a 11 little atle ahr shriveled I 1 meled up deeply wrinkled eld cid man with long grey braids to his bis waist an active brain and a perfect set of teeth no one now alive remembers toulouse To urouse when he was not an old man and since indians keep no record of their ages age 5 no one knows how old he la is if ff one olle bol leves hla his stories many mandof of the cal details of which are accurate he m must be more than years of age he claims I 1 ims to have been a young warrior in 1847 and to have been with the war par party ty which met brigham a m young and his pioneers at the platte river tou rouse candidly admits that the indians were there tor for the purpose of ext aln I 1 sting the whites as aa soon as they crossed too t h a river brigham young always worked on the theory that it was cheaper to feed the indians than to fight with them and thus he won them over they joined djs party and accompanied them to the salt late lake valley acting as guides escorts and nd guard of benor it if I 1 understand tou rouse correctly the old man speaks poor english which he be amplifies with eloquent sign language but he be Is able to nuke make himself plainly understood when he be speaks ot of the great mormon leader brigham young heap good man ho he pays about the time that the mormons cormons arrived in utah according to toulouse To Tou urouse roure a large party ot of mexicans were working gold gola mines in the uintah mountains and peeking the gold on mules to mexico city it will be recalled that at that tinie time utah was part of mexico one of the seven places where they were working Is located on the edge ot of a gently sloping eloping meadow at the head ot of dry fork or deadman gulch the indians call it about two miles southeast of 0 brown duck lake toulouse To urouse calls this a bullet mine make heap big fire on rocks ketchum bullets he explains this place Is located by the way on the th strike ot or an extensive fissure system w which hi c h can be traced for at least 30 miles the mexicans who were working this mine got into some sort ot of trouble with the indians and killed one ot of thorn them in revenge the indians indiana ambushed the c cabb 11 w while hile they were working underground g r ou nd To toulouse Touro urouse uEe tells a vivid story of 0 the battle as he saw it from the top ot of the hill above the mine it Is difficult to tell from the indian account how many were engaged in the battle some of the mormon settlers who have heard the story from several of the 0 lder ider indians all of whom except tou rou rouse se are now dead estimate that there were 1600 to 1700 mexicans pitted against four or five thousand indians it Is hard for me to believe that such a largo large force of mexicans could leave so few marks of their work behind th tarm am even though nearly a century has elapsed except for a few trails cut to in rocky hillsides hill sides there are few evidences that they ever visited this region forest rangers who have examined blazed trees along these trails and counted the annual rings estimate that the trees are now nearly a hundred years older than when they were blazed the indians say that they have taken extreme measures to hide bide the work of the mexicans but it Is an unusual mining operation which carl can be carried on without leaving a waste dump behind and a dump Is hard to hide however these are just my reneo reflections to a I 1 am telling the story as aa it was told to III III me one of the favorite legends of the Is the rhodes story several variants of which have been current tor for the past 30 yea years rs or more the me present version sion comes to me from a man who claims that his father was one of rhodes closest friends that rhodes was a frequent visitor at their home and that he beard the details of the story from rhodes himself he saw some of the ore which rhodes brought from the mountains but the recollection of its appearance Is not i distinct he was but a boy at the time and all that he remembers is 13 the continued on page four mining news continued from page one way his father and rhodes handled and exclaimed over it A short time after the mormons cormons had established ta b dished themselves in utah chief walker of the ute tribe offered to present rr brigham aham young with some money rock it if the latter would send a man atter it brigham young agreed and delegated for the trip a man named caleb rhodes who had started a ranch in the kamas valley at the western end of the uintah mountains when the appointed time came and the indians arrived at the ranch old man rhodes was sick and unable to go but after r some discussion he agreed to send hs his 17 1 1 year old son young cale in his place C chief walker placed the boy in charge of a buck indian with dire threats of what would happen to him if he permitted any harm to come to young cale and the two started out three trips were made into the mountains and three pack loads of gold ore were delivered to brigham young it would appear that the latter on n it over decided that the vr v arst r thiap thin I 1 you I 1 i i would vou d bo be to bl ait L a gold excitement so he forbade rhodes to make any more trips into the gold country rhodes went without permission however and took his father and his half brother enoch with him enoch was killed by the indians on one of the trips an and d the father died while on a mormon mission sion to arizona where he had been sent nt by the church fathers it was said because he taked too much about the gold in the young cale continued to make secret trips into the hills for many years shaking off those who tried to follow him and keeping out of sight of indian police police and soldiers by this time the south side of the had been made an indian reservation and prospecting was forbidden rhodes died a few weeks before the reservation was thrown open in 1805 1905 leaving an estate of about I 1 am told he knew that the reservation was to be thrown open to prospectors and he was very anxious to live until ho he could get in and legitimately locate his ground he Is said to have told his doctor that he would fill the room with gold ore and give it to him it if he could put him back on his feet rhodes left two maps of his diggings one of these Is carefully drawn with ink on buckskin and shows trails streams and lakes which are said to correspond fairly well with those near the head of rock creek the map Is supposed to represent a placer but certain features are obscure and have not been satisfactorily explained the other map Is a pencil sketch on a piece of scratch paper such as might have been torn from a boys spelling pad it Is said to be a deathbed death bed sketch and shows a tunnel beside three little lakes rhodes instruction to his wife as to how to reach this place have lead to the conclusion that it is somewhere in the vicinity of brown duck lake the rhodes story and maps have caused much speculation and some little search of the mountains mostly by farmers and sheep herders gerders rhodes came in trim frim the west going up P the provo pov river and crossing rock creek it Is generally greed from there his route is a mystery but the tact fact that he be brought out considerable quantities 0 of f gold Is well authenticated or elese the liars of utah are unus unusually ilailo convincing and so the stories go and these which I 1 have given are not halt half of them are they true Is there gold in the uintah mountains are these stories made ol of whole cloth or Is there any foundation for them in tact fact frankly I 1 dont know I 1 have yet to soe any cold which I 1 know came from the uintah mountains my personal investigations of the range have been confined 20 miles long and four or five to 0 an area t mil miles ea wide vide between rock creek and the yellowstone river and I 1 do not feel that th this is narrow experience justifies a pro found conviction one way or the other the cormons mormons believe these stories implicitly find and the indians who are tar far from dumb have been making their stories pay dividends tor for a generation each white settler thinks that some day some indian whom he has befriended will tell him something which will make him rich tic 1 so he slips a sack of flour or a side ct c bacon over to the indians cabin 0 occasionally c casio caslo nally when he can spare it and watts waits for the indian to talk in the meantime the indians are not reproducing themselves and the race is rapidly dying off there will be few left in this part of the world in another 20 years and the stories will be myths unless someone proves their truth personally I 1 am inclined to pay some attention and search for a fire when I 1 see a big smoke and I 1 intend to devote so some me more time to the when an opportunity presents itself but tor for the present I 1 prefer to present these stories as pure fairy tales conditions IMPROVING AT AMERICAN LAC ILAC I WILL LIKELY BR LISTED ON STOCK EXCHANGE NEXT WEEK manager andy hurley huncy of the park city development company informed the record today that development work is progressing steadily at the american flag and that the fissure on the 1100 Is widening out as depth Is reached and conditions at the property generally are decidedly encouraging because of 0 bad air during the week shipments were curtailed but that handicap has been cleared epand up and shipments win will increase the coming week mr hurley gives the information that application had been filed this week aorl tori the listing ot of palk paik city development company on the salt lake mining exchange and will likely be called the coming week v eck i CHANGE OF FORMATION IN I 1 I 1 AT THE MAYFLOWER word today from the mayflower tunnel u unit nit of the new park Is to the effect that dehing ahead in the tunnel Is going right ahead and that a change ot of formation in the face Is coming in and conditions generally quite promising STOCK SALES AND METAL PRICES FOR WEEK FRIDAY park city con 27 and sliver silver king coalition 1000 new quincy 1000 ac bar silver off cent down to 4 46 6 1 lead ca d 4 25 copper 8 zinc 4 40 TUESDAY stocks continue to slide elide downward as does silver park city con 2612 26 to silver king western new quincy 1000 ac silver king coalition silver down another J cent 45 j lead copper zinc WEDNESDAY sliver silver strengthens Ts cent to 45 lead 4 2212 copper stock stack sales east utah 1000 23 ac ac park city con 28 26 26 and 25 c park premier 2000 ac silver king coalition 60 THURSDAY silver slips again y cent to 45 lead copper and zinc same as wednesday stocks weak and lower park city con 2500 a 0 25 and 25 c park utah ia silver king coalition 9 90 sliver silver king western SATURDAY new quincy 1500 ac park premier 1000 ac silver king coalition ia 0 10 1012 1212 silver king western a 0 silver 3 higher 46 46 lead copper and zinc same |