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Show Tun Season ami this Minks. The A , .( AYi ii' luim'k of Tuesday says : The Salt Lake papers cannot bo no-oiiM'd no-oiiM'd by di.-appointod foitiino-luinter.s of having deceived them by oxtiava-n.uit oxtiava-n.uit ivpivsonialions of tho imnorul wealth of I'tah. I'liliko tho press of almost, all new mining districts, they are remarkably sober in their ai'count.s of new discoveries, though they mention men-tion them all. More than that they have warned strangers not. to rush to Salt Lake in the middle of winter, when this advice was evidently to the detriment of Mormon traders, hotel-keepers hotel-keepers and property-owner. Whatever What-ever disappointments therefore, our 'Gentile brethren may encounter, they will have tiono but themselves to blame for them. Tho papers hero would have been culpable had they done other than they did. To-day, tho last day of March, there is an immense body of snow in tho mountains and canons, which will prevent prospecting to any great extent for a couple of months. To invito a large number of men hero with illusory hopes, simply that they might spend money if they had it, would bo worse than unwise it would be criminal. Mines that are devolopcd so far as to be regularly worked, aro doiug well; but men without capital who own claims buried deep under snow cannot realize on them for some time yet. Wo look for a brisk and busy season, by and by, but it has not yet commenced. Ono or two points with regard to the Utah mines should be well and widely understood. Many rich discoveries havo been made, but owing to tho quantity of snow in the canons and on tho mountains their extent ex-tent and value cannot yet bo fully ascertained. as-certained. Miners working by the day or month at good wages need not think to make money rnoro rapidly here, unless they have means to subsist sub-sist on while prospecting, making discoveries, and until they can realize on claims which they may locate. And capital can find profitable investment in Utah. |