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Show I.K I TI'.H FflO.M OPIIUl. t ii'iim L'n v, Jvist Ciiu.i. J.ily IJ, lo71. Edilu.i lluidd: Uj.hir dUnet v.a. tl.c ti..H to pio- i:tit;i; li ii LiilKO'.i of h'JiU bnvef :u Liaii. '1 li: ii.-eovi'i'V of the rieh ciiior- I'li: OI'lt iu'l'C natural, attl.iCl-'d atlelr tioii, und liie coii-e.j'jL-iice wub '.nat We had a heavy eu.ratiun of pro a pee tors and iui:itr :. According to my ex -, p'jlier;e.! in I'lU-'-peeti1 g, ciiiuriiLM art) L'i!er;:l:y found coniind to a iuia;t limit in liineMone 1 'rmutiun. It is not surprising, then, 11. at every itinerant ! prospector t-nd ,:iender-iuot" that i.-irne to our uiiLiiet, :-huu!d not fiiid a .Mountain LiOn, ff ;:-ny tide, fciivei Chief or Mountain Tiger. i'Vom oh-1 nervation ami cxpericiiec. loth iu Montana and Nevada, I tind that that , genus h-tmo known as iho "'honest' miner," and of proupeeturs will rush: furiuii.-ly from liie host camp in tho ; country and pronounce it a hide ox huiubu?, mi J (;0 in search of tome "big thing" in riume far off mountain, where va-ue tradition says that huge piles of the precious metal lio, only wailing for tho liurdy miners to come and help themselvej. So it h;u been . with Uphir, und mo it has been with every mining district oi'auy importance botli in Utah and Nevada. Many of our Ophirites started out j in high hopes of finding bumothing ' better, and alter rambling around from j district to district have returned likii the 1 "prodigal sou' 'and declare Ophur I to bo the best place they have seen. Our minos aro looking better as we go down in them. It is unreasonable to suppose that every spur and stratum of 010 will lead to a grand deposit of oro. It has been demonstrated that there aro but few permanent paying mines iu any mineral belt. Wo have largo quantities of ore on 'our dumps, airuuiag tho completion of jthe reduction works. But little oro , is being shipped from our district, on I account of tho high rates of freight. 1 Our furnaces are working 6inaU quan-1 quan-1 tities of high grade chloride ores, with 1 galena and carbonates. When our mills get in successful operation we ex-I ex-I poet lively times. I am under the im-1 im-1 pression that tho most of our milling ores will have to be roasted before they can be worked successfully. Messrs, Heffernan and Goff, of the Alger Reduction Works at Corinne, are here purchasing ores, with a view of shipping direct to Uorinue by steamer steam-er City of Corinne. In my next I will speak more particularly of the j principal mines and their development, develop-ment, &0. .Riff Raff. |