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Show Tub Camp Floyd Minino District. Dis-trict. A reliable correspondent of Lwiston writes to the Herald depre- 1 eating the erroneous roports which have boon put in circulation in this 1 city in reference to Camp J'loyd mining , district, with the viow Lo injure the recognized excolleut prospeot of the mines of that district. This camp, our correspondent says, was never more prosperous or its members as' conlidcut of tho realization of their ! hopes. This is ahowp ip the tubs(au- 1 tiul iuiprovemcots being made, and j the excellent accommodations which a I stiMuger can now receive As to tho Silvor Cloud miue, tho proprietors appear ap-pear to be satisfied, arc taking out j rock full as good, if not better than -v ever before and arc putting up nub stantiftl buildings aud other witling works. The Comstook shale is now j down over eighty feel; a drill north of the shall has struck a heavy body of' ore composed of spar and groy quartz, and hard black rjuarU in tho centre, liud looks well. How a pertioq can. report re-port ou tho value or worthlcssncss of a miuo without examination, it is difficult diffi-cult to tell. It is well known that tho Silver Cloud is closed to all strangers, And last week a man went down into the Comstook shall on a friendly pretext, pre-text, blinking from tho light of tho blazing sun and snow, staid about ten minutes, could not aco nor did he sco anything, and afterward wont to trie city and reported unfavorably of the mi no. frucb a man is cither an ntu or a fool to givo a favorable or an unfavorable unfa-vorable roport under such circumstances. |