Show rf t SALT balt isake lame CITY cites ra utah dec ath 1871 lei edior deseret news mows dear sir thinking that you might again favor me 0 with a small space tn in your columns I 1 shall try to trespass as little in this communication as possible my ray object being for the most part to speak of the mineral resources of some odthe of the principal I 1 mining camps in utah I 1 shall begin with bingham canon which is a large mineral belt running northeast by southwest south bouth west all checkered dver over with well defined velua veins and for the tho most moat part claimed monument ed and staked and also recorded thousands ofel of claims atme aime with only enough development to nil fill the rea requirements emente of the mining laws of othe the district are recorded a and ind I 1 may add that those laws only require 50 worth of labor to hold said claims against all others for six months and the general result Is tha that t but buh few mines of much note have been developed to any extent not only in bingham canyon but in many other places where the laws jaws are similar although bingham is some older than perhaps any other cam camp p in uta utah ab yet owing to its bad mining laws it is no better developed than many others that have been discovered more recently the ore in this cam camp P is 0 of f a much higher grade se than is ge generally r aily aljy supposed as many interested parties have misrepresented the facts in tile the premises I 1 I 1 am or should be pretty well posted in regard to the min ml eBIn esin esir bingham having been operating in that camp for six m months of the season just past I 1 know ihnow of beveral several mines that aro are and have been taking out plenty of ore ai assaying up to broms 50 of sliver silver to as hf higham h as to the ton of rock and the cottonwoods Cotton woods also east canon and many other campa camps ocless of less note and so meryet to be discovered all will when properly evelo devel omd pd go to swell and augment the wealth not only of utah but niao alao idso of ba entire government of the union with this proviso that is if these hungry federal wolves will let lot letus us peaceably work these thebe miney mines and stop A crusade that has alread yin 0 faw short months shut abut out ont millions of d ollars dollars in money that capitalists would not risk hereon here on account spleen exhibited ag against kinst kenst a people that only claim the tho inalienable right to worship god accord according big to tha tho dictates of their own consciences truly K JE HOWELL |