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Show OIKCiIIAIUCAAO.il MINKS. (Special CorrcspondoDco ol'tbe Herald.) BiNunAM Canon, June 3u, 1871. Editors Herald : On Monday last there was an election elec-tion held here f )r Recorder of the West Mountain minim: district, resulting in ! the re election of the former incumbent, j Everything went off very peaceably, 'with tho exception of a little more . "lanjrluleg" being imbibed than wa.- actually necessary, but resulting in no j difficulty whatever. miners' meeting. ; There is to be a miners' meeting on j Sunday next, to determine the rinhu- "foiio company to c:irry water paK their neigliloic, in the shape of a train of sluices capable of carrying t he whole Biiifihiitit creek. aid creek beinn . monop tl'zcd in that way gives consid-erable consid-erable diHatifjction to the other par- ( ties wanting to lndrauHc. I will tend you the decision of the meeting next week. ! PROSPECTING. ! There is considerable prospecting j going on, but no very valuables discoveries discov-eries so I iir its I can learn. - One lode I visited this morning promises well, owned by a company of the boys t rom j tho Co-nperativti in town. Q iite an ; array of names on the discovery stake I j assure j on. TT1E GULCH. i There is another r-fl'ort now being j made to open out tho gu'eh. What j little h is been done so far has resulted J well. With all the inconvenience of ! working without mach nery. it has paid some t-eventeen dollars to the man per j day; wiih machinery, this could be ar least trebled. A pretty good invest-( invest-( ment lor capitalists to take bold of. i V'e have had quite an army of crickets visitinir us for some days past, ; but as our gardens are limited aud dili-geit!y dili-geit!y watched by the younger portion , of the community, their. -top I piesume ; will not be of very long duration. I The weather is very warm out here, but no comparison to the heat in the idity. Iwhts are cool and pleasant, l enabling one to get a refreshing sleep j after the fatigue of the day. Vour-, B. S. |