Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1892 — A MORMON ELDORADO. [ARTICLE]

A MORMON ELDORADO.

Rich Diggings Discovered in Utah—Towne e - Depopulated by the Rush to — Durango, Col., has gone crazy over the reported discovery of rich placer diggings, located in southern Utah, where the San Juan river empties into the Colorado. The find is unparalleled since the days of 1849. Along tho line of the Atlantic <fc Pacific railroad the towns are almost depopulated, and fourteen thousand men are already on the scene. The placers were discovered less than a year ago by a Navajo trapper. He Interested Eastern capita), end his machinery was secretly shipped to the placers under the pretense that it was to bs use 1 in developing coal mines. An old prospector noted the nature of tbe machinery and outfit, and went back to Winslow with a report of his discovery. Since then every available means of transportation has been headed for the diggings. Tho exodus from Durango commenced Wednesday. A company has been formed to operate a stage line, thir time from there being shorter than from any other point.