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Show , ! TIKTiC. : i " he fo'lowitiz eo;nrT:unicatio:i ifrotn a 4-eiititman of this city who has t!ie ' I faeul'y of sayiiit; what he thinks. Ii ! tho-e interested in 'I'intic believes he I hasn't s-cti the rich nasi which they 1 conceive i xi;s there, we sha 1 be pleased to lnve ilieiu tell us more facts; j i' the gentlemen in this city to whom ! allu-iun is made a e led to think that j Tinttu men ha' e a wrong impre-fiuin conceining them, we offer them the rp portunity to set the matter right. Our correspondent may now speak for himself: him-self: d&yr.SoU Like 'ikr-ill.: Having returned from Tintic I pro pose gi'-'ing you a few it.-ms concerning mining affairs in that district. Bii.-iue.s cannot be said to be lively, the only place pre.-culiiig anyth ng uf that app. a'rauce being Silver City, a j place a.le up oi a blacksmith .,hop, a oidiani hall with one table and a bar, the iccoroers ofiiee and a bakery This slum d Le called the City o! 1'iomise, taking its name trom the plau on which bus.tios is do. e tin-re. tin ring my suy, which was some five or six days, I did nut see a cvut change hand;-. ; -'- - - Huncerning the ndtieral prospects I fhuuld say they are to an extent very Haltering' Tne wansea .'ode, discov ered b Oar B Voung, has every iudicalion of a good untie. It is defined de-fined by a perlect wall on b-th side th t widens out as they sink down.' At the time of my visit to the lode they were about foils feet iu ou it with a f'ou" to six teet tunnel. Immediately across on a ce:ghboring hill, about, half a tube from the Swansea Swan-sea is found the .ami sou li.de, on winch a great amount ot work has been done by Bol var Koberts t Co., and judging by ap.eaianc a the work is a 1 of no avail, the mine having runout A mile and a had north' from th re I came upon what is called the .Mammoth lode. It presents the appearance ot much work having been done on it at great expense to the owners,, jtiM according ac-cording to the'Vepo t'of o e of the miners, without their having realized anything from it. The locators of i he Mammoth complain considerably ot the assayers and men dealing in ores in Salt take City ; of the assayers, because be-cause they say tliey uud rrati the value of tluir mineral; of the buyers that tl-ey are blind to their own interests ,-Wh all know it is natural lor a man that has anything to think he has the be-,t I learned from one of the miners that Maj. Harmon, one of the owner' of the Mammoth lode, lefues now to sed ores, and intends to ship hem west Bv so doing he will be able to satisfy all doubts en cerning his riches. .There are a great - many other lodes n the. rii..-..;-r w' i-h I did nor. vi-it and know nothing of except what others say. 1 lie .Miri li .-star, Eio-niug Stai, Diamond Dia-mond and Eureka aie all being wo' ked Those int- rested in them have had as says of their ores that, exche them P. continue work. It is likeiy that the Tintic mines in the hards of capita ist could be made profitable but us tfey are being wmked th- y will inske poorer poor-er a great mai y poor men. Poor men employ poor m-n. aiid poor men do. the work ; bu- poor men can t pay. It will be atoni.-bing if mary that aiv employ. d there this sumni-r do ti"t want lor bread and clothing i-.ext winter. Pkospectox |