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Show LETTER FliOM TIXTH . j Regular CorrMponueuco of iho Ukfiald, : Silver Citt, Sept. Sth, 1871. Editors Herald : My trip home was anything but pleasant. Bad roads, dust in superfluous super-fluous quantities, and being aboard n stage coach, are not as conducive ol creature comfort as many things I could name. Iintic is all right a little dust but inarching on to better times. While other camps are having a Summer season of prosperity, we are preparing for a Winter campaign, which at present, promises to bo successful. suc-cessful. Contracts for sinking on ledges are being let, and ore is being hauled from various mines for reduction at our smelting works in tho district. New discoveries are occasionally made, and of course the Inst is always the best. Generally the boys are getting down to business, and are beginning to rely more on their mines developed, than in the specious promises of well-dressed well-dressed genta, who are very willing to bond any and every thing in the shape of a mine, providing tbero is no money to be put up. What we want here is legitimate business and business men, capital and machinery, to work our ore. Men with mines arc beginning to realize re-alize that ono developed mine will bring money quicker and more of it than twenty undeveloped mines bonded, and the bonds in the hands of irrespon sible go-betweens. I do not wUh to be understood as throwing oold water on the business of bonding, where it is legitimate, but when men bond their ground for two, three or four, months to irresponsible parties, with-! out a dollar forfeit, it simply ties their1 hands and bars out real business and enterprise, and finally ends iu glutting the market with worthless property. There is no lack of good mines iu this district in which shares can be got by men of some means and energy, who are willing to develop ground for feet; and miners here would much rather let out their mines for development than bond them for fabulous nriees that are never or rarely realized. Silver City is flourishing. Samuel Moore, Esq., is building a line residence, resi-dence, under tho super intenda nee of Judgo Wilson, who, by the way, has very iittlc to do in a legal capacity. A comtbrtabie and ueat recorder's ollice has ju:t been erected. Our stores are doing well; Whitney & Uoolan still continue to supply tho hardworking miner, tho weary traveler and happy prospector with creature comforts at moderate prices. The telegraidi poles I will be here iu a few days, then the j wire, with an ouieo at fcilver, and I then your lightning flashes will sometimes some-times emit a ray of light to our thriving thriv-ing burh. We are rather a modest sort of folks here, only asking tele- . graphic communication, newspapers, money and machinery, 2nd we will! furnish mines and ore. i Our ledgfs. so far as pro.-pecicd, 1 look well, ihe tirst discovered ledge . of the district tho Sunbeam holds its own. At a hundred and fifty ieet! deep, on the L'ongar claim, a fine! body of ore is in siht. S. B. Moore's claim (the nest north, at seventy-Live feet deep has a twelve-inch viu of : the liueit kind of chloride ore. About , sixty tons of lirn-class ore is on the ' dtunp. which will biius its owners a few Vs. Peck's ehilt Lwks weLI:1 auJ vi)l further up thi i hill and ueui iUi end of the origin--ai location, ilyuc i: iiarris are bavin- a sha:t pu: down in good style. 1 ai -ball is downfi::y-sii icct, with a :iae vein of ore ia siiiu On ; the Sunbeam Koria Intension, Say- ' der's ground has been tunnelled one(' hundred and tifty feet. Two shafts aio 1 in prujjrens of sinking in the tunnel, 1 one showing a very fin seam of choice ore. On the South Kxt'u-iou. Lewis' -hall U duWii one hundrt-d and tifty feet. A cut across lb-- l,de howa fifteen fif-teen feet of gtmii ore, or ledge mutter. This Lnwis nunc i about m ! sold to western eapiiaiii-ts lor bometliing over 4O.iw0. The Old Black Dragon and Martha Wahmytun the iorth Star -ituated on the west side of Dragon 1 FI ill, pro'mises well. A large body oft ore i- in Miiht, and its owners consider; it a big thi !);.'. N't mo two thousand 1 I I'eet of this U-de have been bonded to a 1 reliable resident of your eitv at fair tigurrs the sul' will probably como ; oil". Crismon has commenced work., auin on the Swaii-ea, a fine galena 1 edge in sight of this town. 'ihe; Mammoth is still remunerating its owners by the qualities of rich copper ( oro extracted daily from its shafts. 1 The Blacket Co. havo some line lodes. The Criekot, o.o of t heir discoveries, is thought to be rich. The Vesora, Kstreala and Lillian will pay big for working. The Silver Star, discovered ! by Sutherland, promises to shine for. him and bis company. Diamond city h thriving uud boasH, i as well as hue smelling works and sev- j eral new houses in course of erection, one of the finest brick kilns in two; counties, with brick entirely Diamond) made and finely burnt. A distillery is1 going up, whero home made "Oh Be Joyful" is to be manufactured by Prof. Thompson. A trip to a few of the mine arouud Diamond to-day was productive of pleasure and some surprise, if a man can Ik.' surprised at the vast mineral wealth of thin district, after being in it any length of time. The Morning Glory lode, owned by old friend Peter Stubbs Si Co., is being developed and prouiies a rich harvest to in owners, j who have something iie:ir l."n tons of fme chloride and carbonate on the dump; with & shaft down one hundred teot. The Isabella Victoria, owned by the Diamond Silver Mining Company Com-pany of Chicago, in company wilh Gough, Daliin and others, develops well. Tho shaft is down titty i'eet in tino style, with a seven-foot vein oi choice mill ore, that assays high in cold and silver, and soma seventy tons of tho ore on the dump speaks well for "Vic." Tho Brown lode, owned by tho Brown family, late of Lake Superior. Mich., assays well in copper and silver. Sunbeam Second, has a shaft one hundred feet deep, and bids fair to remunerate ils owners for time and means spent in its development. The Selkirk with a shall fifty feet, owned by Hammer it Co., shows a fiuo vein of carbonate ore, which is being sold a! forty dollars per ton on tho dump. Tho Shoirer, n new discovery near the old Joe Bowers, is having a shaft sunk j and ore haulod to the smelting ' works 1 of its owners, the Tintio Minims and ' Smelting Co. The Shocbridgc is still at par, dowu one hundred end twenty- j live feet, with a four loot-vein of fine; cnlena, which assays high in silver. Ore is being shipped to Swansea. There 1 aro rumors that the mino is about to chance hands at the uico littlo figure of ibO,000. Tho Legal Tender, owned by Lewis & Co., has resumed specie payment in silver and copper, to tho tune of a four-foot vein. Uncle Tom Wilson's lodes all look well. All they want, ho says, is plenty of help, which he is putting on. Moro auon. Hurry up the telegraph, stage poach, and railroad, and we are ail right, ours, A. 0. |