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Show w7 i W estern Mining Gazetteer i I VOL. I I SALT LAKE CITY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1880. COMMUNICATED. IStefcmi (jfedter, fitting PUBLISHED i Jas. O. Lacey, known to many of your readers as a veteran WEEKLY. prospector and miner in Utah, has been for the last two years DEVOTED TO engaged in exploring the mining districts of Colorado. In a AND letter from him received by the writer of this, Mr. Lacey says: I ought to have written you before, but this forbidding counAUTHORIZED AGENTS: Maj. Danilson, Blackfoot, Idaho. try of Colorado has not afforded me anything to write about. John McG. Scott, Eureka, Nevada. I came to Leadville two years ago last month. I found then Cai.. C. Claw8ov, Bonanza City, Idaho. T. E. Clohect, Galena, Wood River District, Idaho. on the dumps of their famous mines a great mass of iron ore, Charles K. Miller & Co., Room 2, Tribune building, Chicago. Charles W. Crane, Room 39, Safe Deposit building, San Francisco. such as the Jordan mine in Bingham produces. I did not think Subscription, postage paid: United States and Canada, $3 per annum; all other favorably of the camp, and, therefore, did not record prospects countries $4. Payable m advance. that I found. Since then I have been in nearly every mining Remittances should he made by Order, Bank Draft or Registered to W. Mark. Musgrove. Letter, payable section of Colorado. This year I have taken in the Gunnison Communications in regard to the Mining or Milling of Ores solicited. De-- I scriptions of new camps specially desired. country and Ute Reservation, and in all my wonderings, I have not seen a district, except Leadville, that would equal the poorest district in Utah, if the same money and enterprise were applied there that is thrown away here. I have met a BINGHAM, UTAH. great many Utah men here, and nearly all say they left better Special Correspondence of the Western Mining Gazetteer. camps and prospects there than they can find here. Here we have the opinion of a competent judge, based The general prospects in this camp are much brighter than observation supplemented by long and varied they have been for months, and look considerably better, even upon personal than two weeks since. The advance in lead is, doubtless, the experience. Time, with patience on the part of Utah mine owners, will reason of this remarkably good feeling on the part of Work will be resumed at once on a great manyv prove the correctness of the conclusions drawn from the contrast between the two mineral sections in favor of Utah as olaims which have been idle since last year and we are all exabove noted. pecting a real lively time within the next month. Capitalists, like a flock of sheep follow their leaders be it y is making its regular shipments of The 15 tons of ore per month. This ore goes well in lead say over a precipice or into a shallow carbonate bed. The excen-tri- c movements of a mining boom are past finding out. from 58 to GO per cent, and IS to 20 ounces in silver. The Old Probs may, with a show of certainty predict the work being done at present is running levels and the vein is coming storm and mark its course. But the direction and two feet wide. The Yosemitc has eight or ten men at work and is shipping momentum of a mining and speculative cyclone no fellah may Leadville on the brain, has precipitated a colnine tons of ore per day to the sampling mills at Sandy. This find out. capitalists and needy adventurers upon ore goes about G5 per cent, lead and 15 ounces in silver. Some umn of tender-foote- d summits of the Rocky Mountains; but now, the June-cla- d prospecting work is being done. Leadville on the pocket, is dispelling the illusions of the The Lead mine is shipping 20 tons of ore per day. Sinkwhile it depletes the purse and demoralizes the subject. ing the main shaft progresses favorably. The ore goes 55 per brain The substantial advantages of superior climate, cheapness cent, lead and seven to eight ounces in silver. The vein is l. Two of transportation and supplies, permanence of veins, richness encased between a lime hanging and quartzite shafts have been sunk and the vein proven for not less than of ores and the ease with which they can be mined and reduced, attract to the mineral districts of all of which 44 feet in with. The grading is all done for the new in the near future, establish her claim as the most power engine which is to be erected at once. There are 15 Utah, will, desirable mining region on this continent. Work and wait men at work. The Hooper is looking well and will commence shipping is the victorious motto of the miners of Utah. The pick ore very soon. The ore is very fair grade carrying 50 per and shovel, the drill and powder blast faithfully and persistcent, lead and 30 to GO ounces silver. The vein is six feet ently wielded and applied, will surely grave upon the everlastwide. From the amount of ore in sight 100 tons per month ing rocks the monuments of title to enduring triumph. From all quarters come evidences of new and rich discoveries, of can be easily shipped. Fair prices rule the maaket, The Sundown is shipping 20 tons or more of ore per day. deep and profitable workings. This ore runs high in lead and fair in silver. The company and our imperial mining interest was never in a healthier or A larger volume of capital is all having been at work all the past winter and summer, is now more vigorous condition. that is needed to utilize the waiting wealth. ready to deliver almost any quantity of ore. Besides those mentioned there are many prospects all Tiie latest excitement is Fourth of July District, Montana. around making small shipment of ore. It is situated seven miles from Butte. None of the ore goes less than 300 ounces silver per ton. Simple Simon. Bingham, Utah, August 27th, 1880. GOLD ! i NO. 3. SILVER 31INING. . ' j j 1 1 ' i i Post-Ofllc- I I e mine-owner- s. Happy-Go-Luck- foot-wal- 25-hor- se pre-eminent- ly |