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Show vSoda Sl'lUNOH. A gentleman just returned from a flying trip to "The Saratoga of tho Rocky Mountains" Soda Springs says there aio plenty of grashoppers and crickuis in that region. The crops on Bear river, north of Cache, aro gone. A post-ollicc ha-been ha-been established at tho Springs, with 10. Fames, postmaster, having a weekly week-ly service of mail from Bear Lake, fhero aro but few settlers there, as yet. Intensive placer diggings havo been discovered at Carriboo, fifty miles north-cast of Soda. A steam raw-mil has been orected, which will be a remunerative re-munerative investment, ns lumber is uow selling at $50 per M. Tho mines aro paying from $3 to $20 to tho man per day. The people of Cacho arc fighting tho ironclads successfully in that region, and though a number have tho mining fever and a heap of talk is exchanged about argentiferous galena, the look of tho fields denote that they seem determined not to forget the main "lead" in that locality agriculture. |