Show I THE OLD RELJABLE V The Holidays Min s Being Worked i V The Bst Camp JD Utah Ybt and V Will bd Work for Gen eratioBB BIGnAM U T Jan 4 82 Editors Herald It has been quite a time since I J penned you anything concerning the socalled Old Reliable It should be called the Never Fail Mining District Dis-trict to which miners flock in the winter for the puipose of making a I stake with which to go prospecting the coming summer The camp is in a prosperous condition today and the outlook is much brighter than for some years past Mining and prospecting are in progress over the entire district while the ring of the anvil and the reports of blasts can be heard in all directions Some may imagine that assessment work is being don out such is not theca the-ca e It IP the advai ce in the prce of lead which has wakened the boys I up a d I th y areworkingin earnest I But LtUe was done here in the wa or amusements during the hol jtla s except that it Christmas tree for the pleasure of the little ones was placed in the Methodist Chuich upon which Santa Claus placed many beautiful things for the children who had been good at schoiil Tue big folks had a grand ball at Lodders Hall a band from your eitj furnishing the inspiration inspira-tion 1 if was a success rom and Jerry was free and plentiful and a good time was had in general The mines now working a force of men are first The West Extension of the Re viere by Mr Martin who has a force of twemy men employed and who is making diily shipments with good profit The Lead Mine is worked under the foremanship of Mr Beverage who is managing fifteen men He has 100 tons of good lead ore insight in-sight and will shortly if he hqs not already done so increase the number num-ber of men to forty The Tosmite being worked under un-der the management of J N 1rler rill Twenty men are at work here and are taking out more firstclass ore than teams can be had to haul away Merrill knows how the thing should be done and is one of the largest owners in the mine The Old Telegraph as you are aware is being worked under lease by Messrs Hoglegrove Mullett They are working about twenty J miners and are making daly shipments ship-ments of first class ore besides stowing away the secondclass for their own mill which will be opened as soon as the weather will allow it to start up The gentlemen are a credit to the camp and have made the allegedtobeplayedout mine pay from he jump while the officers of the company failed to i V pay expenses The Jordon is under themanage ment of Walter S Brown Mr Nick son being foreman A force of some forty men find contant employment upon this property The firstclass ore is shipped the secondclass being be-ing reserved for reduction by the Jordan mill The Neptune is worked under leae by Messrs JRiptoe Co The TenForty and a group of other mines are being operated under un-der lease by F R Williams E Co and the gentlemen are well pleased with the results that are being obtain ob-tain d The Last Chance owners are pros PEctin with a few men under Mr Sampson a steady and practical miner The Steamboat Mine No1 shutdown I shut-down for the hoiidays and will resume re-sume work very soon This mine is managed by Mr R D Clark an experienced and thoroughly competent com-petent mill man miner and manager mana-ger He takes things coolly and is always where his duty calls for him to be Mr John Hawkins is foreman and can also be found constantly con-stantly at his post He knows how to handle a crew of men and can get more work out of a few than many other foremen can out of a much larger number The Dixon is expected to resume work shortly with twenty men or mort The Ti waukie is working a few men 1 y the pn jier owner Mi Goldberg Gold-berg TM re is n It tu be found an idle miner in tne campor one who has to be idle and there is a demand for 150 more who could get steady emp oyraent during the e 1tlle winter win-ter Mints are being reopened and reworked every da and the activity will continue Ihe blackmailers and deadbeats have nearly all departed and owners and lessees here nave as a coiequence commenced to resume work ami develop in earnest Before an tier winter Bingham will convinc outside out-side camps that she is yet tne richest rich-est and will produce more ore than any other mining district while her mines will last fur generations and ages and with all the work done on them during that peiiod will i still be undeveloped And yet some personsbut not a miner will tell you that Bingham is played out So is the ocean and so 4s the man or thing who says that Bingham is petered LIBERI |