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certainty, in the place of the Little Bear River, the junction of the two havin« been somewhere 

 near the northeast end of the Dutch Flat Diggings. The Nary Red is a narrow channel, in which 

 the gravel is mostly a small, clear, red quartz, thus differing almost entirely from the gravel on 

 Elmore or Gray's Hill. The description of the region above Nary led is, in the words of Mr. 

 Colgrove, substantially this : " The Nary Eed is a narrow channel which crosses Canon Creek 

 near Alta, and then spreads into a broader lake-like expansion, terminating by a slide into the 

 North Fork of the American at Green River." On the opposite side of the North Fork is a lava 

 How following nearly the same course as the present stream. To the southeast of the Nary Eed 

 the ground rises rapidly. 



Where the gravel range is crossed by Squire's Canon, the country rock is seen on each side, with 

 a width of about 500 feet of gravel and tailings, in the bottom of the canon. How much more 

 slate was visible, before the accumulation of the tailings began, it is not easy to determine ; but it 

 appears as if the slate did not extend entirely across, the pitch being quite rapid both on the east 

 and on the west side of the narrow place. 



" Plug Ugly " is the name of the high hill between Squire's Canon and Bear River ; it is just 

 south of the Dutch Flat Diggings. The western rim in the canon appears about 200 feet in a 

 westerly direction from the outlet of the old Juniata Claim, on the upper end of Plug Ugly Hill. 

 It appeared, on first inspection, as if the river here must have made a very sharp turn in order to 

 include the gravel on this elevation ; but it afterwards became pretty clear that this deposit is one 

 which was formed at a time when a large extent of surface, not included in the main deep chan- 

 nel, was covered. If the bed-rock is ever fully exposed throughout this district, a comparatively 

 Hat table will probably be found on the top of Plug Ugly, having a rapid descent on the northeast 

 side, into the bed of the main channel. But how far back one would have to look for the com- 

 mencement of the pitch it is not easy to decide, for it is clear that a considerable depth of the rim 

 has been cut away at the point where the line of bed-rock was seen in the canon. It is not so 

 probable that Plug Ugly is the relic of a tributary to the main stream, for the general slope of the 



country is rapidly to the west from this point, and the drainage must have come mainly from the 



east. 



The general course of Squire's Canon is about southwest, and for nearly half a mile it has a 

 breadth of 150 feet or more on the tailings, with a pretty steep grade toward Bear River. The 

 course of this canon was followed until the gorge became narrow, and the descent so steep that 

 tailings would not collect. Here was no gravel, but a narrow gorge, with slates on both sides. 

 On- climbing, 



wer, it was found to be capped with gravel, which could still be traced for some little distance 

 C0Wn tuo s P ur - The lower end of the deposit was not very distinctly marked, small patches being 



ound here and there for a considerable distance below the main mass. A little way up the hill 



rom tll ° lowest gravel seen was what appeared to be a genuine rim, inclining N. 40° E. (mag- 

 netic), at the outlet of a small excavation about 150 feet long by seventy-five wide, and twenty- 



ive deep, in line red quartz gravel. This point was found to be about 175 feet below the top of 

 u g Ugly Hill, although it is probably 350 feet higher than the bed-rock at Missouri Hill, on the 

 opposite side of Bear River. Separated from this opening by a narrow ridge of gravel is anoi her 

 *ge one, 400 feet long by 125 feet wide and about thirty deep, the quality of the material bein 



^ same in the two. The direction of the longer axis of the opening is N. 30° E (magnetic), 



Car ls als ° ih;lt of tho top of the hm itsolf * No well - (leiincd rim was foimd on tl,e s q uire 's 



tot*? 11 SUl ° ° f tb ° dep ° sit ' The P ro J (3cfcin 8' spms are covered with slides of gravel, making the 

 ° U amount of this material seem, at first sight, larger than it really is ; although the main mass, 



W Surnmit of tho hill > WWb be nearly or quite a thousand feet wide. There is evidently a 

 tinf 6 n " mhQT of cllbic y ards of gravel ia this hill, but the amount could not be estimated. At the 

 a us examination was made parties were engaged in making preparations to work it exten- 

 lVel y, by means of water brought from a ditch near Dutch Flat Station. 



however, by the most direct path, to the top of the hill between the canon and Bear 







