Show DINGBAT c What the Old Reliable Is Up to BiNdHAsr March 291SSO Editors Herald The old camp still holds her own while 1 is peace and quiet top 1011 The winter has been long and dreamy but spring teems near For a few days past the gun has melted a great deal of the PDOW and miners can be seen going in ail directions to ferret out some od prospect bole either for gold or lead The people here anticipate gcod times tnia year and not a few are thanksgiving that they did not freeze to death the pMt winter Many of our old neighbors are talking of going to Colorado to try their luck in a new field Some twenty miners are now ready waiting till the weather set lea before startins U on thejourney n Preparations will soon be made to put up forty additional stamps here and long before the present season is over we expect to have 100 additional stamps pounding away at Bingbam gold ores extracting therefrom the Puritanic root of all evil The Stewart No 1 keeps up her lick under the management ot Mr R D Clark who is always to be found at his post of duty Professor Seymour of New York is putting anew a-new kind of machinery in the mil the object of which is to rave the gold in the tailings and it will shortly be in working order Stewart No 2 Mill is taking a rest at present but expects to start up presently Fred Day and C H Lashbrook have shut down on the Gipsy Mine but in a brief period will commence business on the new gold strike in the Gipsy which is said to be exceedingly exceed-ingly rich free gold oro going a high as 1000 per ton The rumor tbat Mr Lashbrook had failed proves wholly unfounded the gentleman having fully satisfied his creditors and is now preparing to commence business en a larger scale than before The Ty walkte Mine is in full blast and continues to ship the usual amount of ore The mine > s under our old and esteemed citizen Mr Fred Gochat who is always to be found At his post of duty The Yosemite is i running the s mea I me-a ever under the superintendency of Col Merritt The Lead is owned by Messrs May Todman situated in Copper Gulch on the Butterfield side and several teams are engaged in hauling the ore to Sandy Frank Hoffrean Esq has been out from the city looking after hia property situated at the head of BlackJack Black-Jack and Bear Gulch Forget the name of his mine but it is said to be very rich in gold and silver being a true fissure vein as I kcosv having seen iL The Dam Phcol mine is situated below the Winnamuck Mine on the south side of main Bingham and is a true fissure vein carrying 40 oz of silver 52 per cent lead aqd 12 in gold Two hundred feet down la i a petrified mastodon which is a great mystery to many of the miners I is suggested that the fellow was in the gulch at the time of the deluge and finding this ledge crawled in to keep out of the rain when it closed in on him and he ia i to be seen there to this day Louis Deronzo and your esteemed townsman Mr Frank Hoffman are tho lucky owners of that famous mine Little blackmailing is going on at present and it is not a paying industry indu-stry at present There have been no marriages deaths or shooting scrapes of late but one of our old assayers says he has batched long enough and is determined to jump the fence So his domicile is undergoing a thorough cleaning preparatory to the new and angelic advent The puzzle has got uswe are in its clutches and for over a week past the vacant wild expression EO common com-mon to men about 1 start newspapers news-papers has seized every Binghamite 13 16 14It can only be did one way LInER |