Winterquarters, Utah post office robbed.

  Winterquarters--The post office was robbed of $655 by bandits according to a report to Denver Police.  

  The postmaster at the time was my Grandfather, Nicholas Peter Pettersson.  There actually wasn't any confrontation with bandits.  The money simply turned up missing.  Nicholas and the family had to work extra hard to pay the money back.  A co-worker was suspected. 

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Davis County Clipper
June 23, 1922

Claims Located Two Miles South of Cottonwood Wash.

In Eastern and Southern Utah

Emery County

  Walter M.Rutt of Woodside was a business visitor at Castle Dale this week.

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  Peter and Lars Frandsen have located a dozen mining claims, bearing gold, silver, and copper, about two miles south of Cottonwood Wash, some forty miles east of Castle Dale. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
October 31, 1907

Claims Located East of Cedar Mountain.

Snap Shots at Local Events

  There is a little doing right along in the mine locating business in this county.  During the past few days George T. Stenhouse, A. W. Warrington, Lorenzo Stenhouse and George W. Richmond, all of Salt Lake City, have had entered for record five claims in the vicinity of the Copper Boy mining property, two miles east of Cedar Mountains.  Henry Wade, Lars Frandsen, R. ace and George Frandsen of Price have located three claims two miles south of Cottonwood Wash and V. L. Acord of Castle Dale has located a claim in the most southeasterly portion of Buckhorn Flat. 

Emery County Progress
January 26, 1907

Salt Lake Herald
January 30, 1907 

Mine Locating down in Emery County.

Snap Shots at Rural Events

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  Mine locating in Emery County is lighter this year than usual.  The only stir so far is three claims located about 14 miles south of Green River town and about four miles northwest of the junction of Green and San Rafael Rivers by F. L. Acord, A. G. Livingston, James Petersen, H. S. Larsen, Ray Jensen, John Aiken and A. Livingston, all of Castle Dale.  The land bears manganese and other minerals.  R. Pace and Al Pace of Green River have located a claim in Cottonwood Wash one mile northeast of Hoyt Springs.  

Emery County Progress
January 12, 1907

Improved Methods of Extracting Values from Low Grade Copper Ore Leads to more Claims Located.

TRUTH AND GOSSIP

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  Emery County Progress has this reference to parties well know in Carbon County:  E. T. Wolverton, Fred T. Stearns, A. Tuttle, William Floyd and other are plastering the country about Cottonwood Wash, Keg Springs and Monument Hill, all lying between Castle Dale and Green River stations, with location notices.  Some of this territory has been indifferently prospected in years past, and some openings a hundred feet in length, or depth, made.  The property so worked has long since been abandoned.  The mineral showing is mostly copper, but the ore is of very low grade.  With the rising price of copper and improved methods for extracting values from low grade ore no doubt there are mineral deposits in that section of country that would pay to work. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
September 24, 1903

Copper Claims in Cottonwood Wash and San Rafael Country.

Emery County

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  T. E. Norton and the Price boys have located thirty-eight claims in Cottonwood Wash.  The ore is high grade copper, and is about twenty miles southwest of the Lesieur mine.  They have also taken up a mill site on the Muddy.  

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  Report has it that James Jeffs has been offered $3000 for his copper claim, located down in the San Rafael country.  

Eastern Utah Advocate
June 15, 1899 

Emery County Growing in Favor as a Mining Section.

AROUND THE STATE

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  Emery County is steadily growing in favor as a mining section.  She's coming all the time, without pushing or boosting.  There's scarcely a mineral one can name that is not found in some parts of this county.  Heretofore it was considered that our mineral deposits were of too low a grade to profitably develop and work, notwithstanding the fact that low grade mining propositions have been the greatest dividend payers.  The Hecker property, however, in the Summerville District, east of here, of which Harvey Hardy is superintendent, promises to change the color of outside opinion respecting mining conditions here.  The Hecker is producing more really high grade ore and reports say there is plenty of it.  A sackful of ore, gathered from 200 feet of the outcropping ledge, was assayed this week and gave returns of 233.2 ounces of silver and 67.1 percent lead.  Several other tests with almost as good results had been heretofore made.  It begins to look as though the mountains east of us contained tons of treasure. 

Salt Lake Mining Review
February 15, 1902