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Show THE HILLS. The Leaching Ftver in -Galena. Good Mines and Brisbt Prospects. Special Corref poadecee. Galena, May 7, 1S78. Thinking the event worthy of mention I would ask space to say that wa have had a long spell of fv.r weather. To day, however, it raius. Scripture informs us that a Bhower of forty days' duration flooded the earth aud farther. Noagh got away with the baggage. I suppose the earth has grown very much since then for it seems to stand it off four or five months iu these last days with uo sign of a deluge more than the aluiciug out of small towns and "sich." I am disposed to doubt that forty days' rain ever flooded the whole earth or that the massive walls of Jerico were "tooted" down with a few old rams horns.but then it is one of the rules ot the church aud we've got to believe it. I have been disposed also to douot even newspaper statements on leaching leach-ing in Utah until by req aeat a triend forwarded me an article on that moile ot treating ores, said, I believe, to be 1 that ol P.-oi. Jiiauiimesial. (Ha is dead now, fortunately for the living) And no lltlle exeumeot provailetl when it was known in camp th&t I had received an article on leaching. Luckily for myecif I thought H prudent to impart the valuable secret to only a few commencing with my friend Jones wno from long experience ex-perience with chemicals felt confident confi-dent of suscess as a leachist I began reading and when about half tbrougo, Jones had a strange look and was working vigorously at his head with both bands. I thought uothiug of it supposing him to bo arranging some i misplaced idea?, but waen at the conclusion con-clusion Jones rushed out an incurable j lunatic I concluded pomethiog nm-t 1 by wrong. He haa since beet, j wandering around under the strange j delusion that ho is au egg beating j machine of great capacity. I nest read it to Smith wh.o rushed home and prepared a bath of the hipo-mixtures hipo-mixtures and got into it. Mrs. Smith has the skeleton and says it is beautifully bleached. One or two attempts at suicide by hanging with a rubber string have been made, but the most singular eflect is that upon our local doctor wbo has given away to the most sad and g.oomy des pondency. The dootor claims, however, how-ever, that he haa lately discoverrd that a hole in the heel of a sock can be effectively mended by putting the sock on upside down, and that toe price of daruing is in all countries equal to the price of a drink, and the thoughts of so great a loss sustained threugh ignorance of the fact is too much for him. Quite a panic prevails generally. Yesterday the people had all lelt towu except tha deputy post mistress. Otherwise matters move ou lively at Galena. The little smelter is to startup soon and tha proprietors metu business. They will add to the works as the future requires aud will doubtless meet with a grand success, but what we most require is capital with which to develop tbo minea, and if the process of leaching is a success, it can be introduced profitably here as the ores generally are low iu lead. Let e i men of Utah epeuk and tell want they know about leaching; whether it is a practicable fact or a machination oi the .walking stick and eye gluS3 order. The Sunday mine, a gold-bearing ledge with ten stamp mill in the south end of our district, has beeu sold lately for "way up" figures, Mr. 3. Wilkeosou retaining a portion of his original interest aud the management. Stephen is from American Ameri-can Fork, Utah, and well known to many Utonians in the Hills, who congratulate him upon his success. He is happy aud etauds his fortune like a little man, and well he may with his thousand in bauk and millions in light in the the mine. It is a peculiarly of this country that fifty or a hundred thousand dollars does not soften auy man's brain as much as a situation on a salary of a hundred dollars per month would do in Utah. It is probably because we have not the "chronic eastern society" as badly as Utah has. Croakers aud small mills are passing away with the toys of childhood. Forty, eixty and eighty stump mills are the order of day and depth and development warrant even larger. Men are beginning begin-ning to learn that mining is in its infancy in-fancy aud is fast growing into America's giant industry. They begin to see that stealing and swindling in railroad and banking operations does not enrich the county, but only sweeps its wealth into the vaults of few money tyrants who are siarviL' and the mass to accumulate more. Men have learned that mines go down and that toe great wealth is loi-ked up in the eartti and thrown upon ita iiirface to ba shoaled up in a day. G. B. Moulton. Old Folks' Excursion. The old folkd' excursion comes ofl ou July 11th, leaving Salt Lake at 7 a.m. The Ogden biasa band has volunteered its services, aud the cursionists wilt be accompanied from this city by the Tenth Ward aud E-fihth Ward brass band. The aflair U in gooi hands and will be a succtes and a secure pleasant out lor the aged gray head?. |