j EEDltTIO OF ORES. IJoDie Rrductloit of Orel-Impolicy of hipping Ore Abroad for He duettou, Regultr Cofrp-in.l-)ne of lh Hirai.d. Salt Lake, July d,"l71. Editor il- mld : The cstrava-.-iint anticipations w general ia-t winter and f-prifia1, wiih rr-f'Tcnec rn thi -addition ' oar popn-hition popn-hition and li,o ii.cii.a-e cf our wealth .jefire t Iil-I'ifijt' of thd yea:, have certainly cer-tainly brori di-ii'pnintvd. 1'u-al ctatc iti this city is uh :i t or inw than in the . priiiL, a-:d the pr:v.-i of Mir I ace indi-t'a'iuii- of mint's h.ive greatly deolined from tlur isorhitatit prices a.ked lor ; -tn-!i indications a t-hort tiuw airo. ! (.'apitali.-t have not hi.'i-n o pn.Hiipt. to inv.- in iii'ii.-.i and n :il estate as it was exj" ctt d they would and our population has v.ui.'Uiei)t'd lc3 rapidly than was hoped lur. 'arioui caae.-1 caae.-1 have coiittiljutL'd to rftVct thce result h (which arc in no manii'T a'.tribuLallc to an ovur i'ctiuj:i;e of ttio riiliriot and M'XK'ia ui' tho mineral tlpoits of the , IViTitory) and amon.i; thee causes, i that which has cxerciod tho most po-1 po-1 tent influence in retarding the development develop-ment of onr mineral resources, is the 'policy we have hitherto almost exclu-,-ively puriud of jihippinK our ores abroad fur reuucti"n. There are now i.u the dumps of the mines of the Cottonwood, Cot-tonwood, Ophir, Cam p Floyd, Stock-ion, Stock-ion, 13iiiL-haui and Tintic districus, thousands of tons of ore that would pay a prutit to the miner if tiiey could be reduced hero, but which oanuoLbeor expensive transportation abroad lor re-duut'on; re-duut'on; aud in addition to the ores of this character already mined there aru known vast deposits of the same class uf ores left un mined because of a lack of facilities tor reducing them at home. Home reduction works is what Utah needs and must have before we cat) hope to arrive at that high degree of prosperity so anxiously anticipated. We have railway facdities for obtaining obtain-ing the material (which the Territorj does not supply) neoewary to construct quartz mills; and debouching from the, canons of the Wasatch are never-tailing streams of water large enough to run any required amount of machinery. Ores may be reduced at a profit by mill process, which would not pay hall the cost of reduction by smelting, and with tho exception of perhaps the Bingham and Stockton districts nine-tenths nine-tenths of tho ores mined around this valley are easily reducible by mill process. pro-cess. Good mills, furnished with some kind of good roasting furnaces, can reduce the most refractory of our ores, excepting the high grade galenas, with a larger profit to tho miner than can be obtained by smelting here or by shipping the ores abroad. Reduction works similar to those of the Auburn company at Reno, in Nevada, Ne-vada, is what is most needed here, and such works erected ac some point iu this valley convenient to the mines and to the railroad, with water as the principal prin-cipal motive power, and managed economically, would not only prove to be a largely paying property to the owners, but wpuld greatly piomote the public prosperity by making it practicable practic-able to develop mines which, until sumo nuch means of reducing ores are provided, must lie dormant. To capitalists such an opportunity for a prciitable investment of their moans is (seldom presented. An examination ot our mines will convince them of the (ibutidaneo of their ores, and herein is the secret of the success or failure (unless (un-less the latter results from mismanagement) mismanage-ment) of all such enterprises. If reduction re-duction works are located at a point where ores are abundant, with prudent management, they must make money; but if the fcupply of ore is spasmodic, limited to a much less quautity thau the works are capable of reducing, then disaster is almost certain to ensue. The present state of development of our mines warrants without risk of failure fail-ure the erection of a half dozen firat-class firat-class quartz mills. Capitalists will not, or ought not, enter upon such enter prises without a careful consideration of all of the circumstances connected therewith, but such a consideration, I am confident, will verify the correctness correct-ness of the opinions herein expressed. Yours, Wasatch.