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Show FROM SALT LAKE TO CAMP FLOYD. Salt Lke City, May 7th, 1372. Editors Herald: You will like me to be brief. I will be as much so as possible. Camp Floyd, the point we started for, is about forty-two m les from here. Our teamster said -unto his horses, "Go forth," at about 8:15 a, m., Sunday, Sun-day, and pot to about forty-one miles and a half from the end of our trip, when it commenced to rain and rained very heavy for about thirty minutes; laid the dost, cooled the air, and made everything look fresh acd delightful. de-lightful. Down the State road, to the left and to the right, as far as the eye can , reach, indications of thrift, industry and improvement abound; farms, gardens, gar-dens, orchard.-', palatial residences and residences of different and indifferent dimensions, cover the entire valley, it looks like, on this side of Jordan. The crops that could be seen to advantage, advan-tage, as we passed alone, preseoted an appearance that must be cheering to the soil-tillers. THE U. 8. R. R. As tho traveler proceeds, passing through ths Cottonwoods to the open country, the Utah Southern track comes in view, and at a point a mild or so north of Sandy the road crosses it. What thoughts passed through my mind whilo contemplating this iron road ! It is destined to do an immense . traffic with tho mines, farms and com-1 munities of Southern Utah and southeastern south-eastern Nevada, and the benefits to be derived from it no one can tell. And the manner in which it has been built is astonishing, when you come to think of it? A creation of "Mormon" labor labor's a pretty good word, isn't it. No help or subsidy from Uncle; no capital from abroad; no nothing, save the nerve, will and enterprise enter-prise of the pioneers of tho great west the Mormons. At tho Point of the Mountain there is a huge task to be done before the track-laying can be touched. The firm of Jackson & Boley.of American Fork, the contractors on this side, have a cut to make through the hill, and are somewhat behind time with it, which compels them to employ two shifts of men one tor tho night and one for the day to complete it. They are compelled, com-pelled, also, on this account, to disregard disre-gard the fourth commandment. They are being met on the south, in the same hill, by Messrs. Isaac & S. B. Young, of this city. They have a big job and a big force to do it. The grading is done and being pushed forward for-ward away down in Utah valley, as far as we could see from the top of the ridge. Nothing of interest to be s-:en, nor did anything transpire until we got to within about four miles from Fairfield, alias Camp Floyd. When there, a hailstorm came on and wo were peppered pep-pered pretty lively for about half an hour with hailstones as largo as qnails' eggs. How's that for quails' I mean hailstones? CAMP FLOYD. A number of the home missionaries from Lchi had been at this burgh on Sunday afternoon, and left in the evening even-ing for Cedar fort, seven miles from Camp. These ministers for tho wel-fair wel-fair of the people are doing much good in their labors. The travel between this point and Tintio, Lewiston and Salt Lake city, is very great, and daily increasing; so much so that Mr. John Carson, the proprietor of headquarters, is compelled com-pelled by the demand for "accommodations "accommoda-tions for man and beast" to invest largely in additions to his already extensive ex-tensive establishment. Many renovations renova-tions and additional improvements are being made throughout tho old towD, by those who anticipate tho increaso in the number of passers through. Bishop Carson showed me a curiosity curios-ity in his corral, on Monday morning. It was a calf, horn about three weeks or a month ago, with his brand J. C. on its left side, as natural as it could be, just in tho place where he brands his cattle, behind the left shoulder. The cow had had thr o or four calves previous to this one. The bishop wished that ail his calves would make their "first appearance" so branded, as it would save his pocket to the amount of fifty or sixty dollars per annum, outlay for driving up stock to bo branded. LEWTSTON. Wo seated ourselves behind our team at 8:o0, Monday morning, and started i'or Lowiston. It is said to be nine miles from Camp Floyd to this place and Feven back, the up-hill rod to it making tho difference in the distance'. A toll road, for traveling over which a tax of fifty cents is collected, for going and returning, made by Mr. E. Vaugh-an, Vaugh-an, relieves teams of considerable hard pulling up and holding hack coming down. Wc got there about noon, and began to look about a bit. Tho hills on either side of tho canyon are "chuck full" of holes prospect holes and holes being worked and developed. Tho most prominent one to be seen in making the descent on Ixjwiston, and not more than a hundred and fifty . yards up a very steep hill from tho road, is the Sparrowhawk. This mine, lo use the words of an old miner who is not interested in it at all, but is prospecting pros-pecting for himself, is goiDg to be tht mine of Utah. Ve climbed up to it and were kindly shown through and around by tho foreman, whose name he will have to excuse us for not ascertaining. ascer-taining. The ledge, in which arc three mines, the Sparrowhawk, Marion ! and Last Chance, is being worked by a company ol Knglish capitalists. There are employed on it eighty men, but before the month's end a hundred will be engaged there. An incline pcv-enty-four feet into the bowels of the earth, a tunnel ninety-four feet, and a (haft quite a way down, I forget how deep, are being picked, drilled, blasted and "cleaned out" generally, yielding different grades of good milling ore, ih. calno nf which In ihft tnn rxnrCJ from $t'HH to and $75. they have 2,5i0 tons of this ore on the dump, and a tramway is being laid down to convey it to the road, from there to be taken to the mill, which the same English Eng-lish company is putting up at the lower end of the camp. This mill is a twenty-stamp one, with plenty ol room left to make an addition of ten more etamps whenever the demand for their use snail increase. The bricks fir the furnace are not yet burnt, hut it is thoucht that three werks or so will sec the mill in runniog ordtr. Wo made an a-oent directly above the mill up a narrow ravine to the top, acd then 'Struck'' up the mountain side very steep to vi -it a iecc- now j being pro--ietc-f. by Mr. Lewis tree-iey, tree-iey, the hrl discoverer of mineral in .'that rmon, he'O 'h- name of the camp. lxwi ;:u. !i: a cou.-.n ol the "iii-'rai" lie Iilc f:r the presi-d?r:cy. presi-d?r:cy. Hora-v. Ii'1 nrl h:- psr'n'-T. have "itrjck it rih," iuoy th .:.'., t " w.il be coti:p-"-d, to suspend opera tions for a while on account of the melting of the snow, the only water supply they had up there, Prominent among the mines of ihis district are those before mentioned and the Mormon Chief, Queen of the West and Silver Shield. The district is comparatively a new one, but the prospects now show there is an endless end-less amount of treasure in it, and the holders of stock in this region may feel confident of a realization of the highest hopes they entertained when the invested. The hotel accommodations are but meagre yet, and Mr. Mines, fully aware that travel will increase wonderfully this summer, is about to nut up "room enough for all." We had not time to go everywhere and do everything; but Mr. M toes told us that a number of inquiries had been made for the Herald Her-ald and we regret not being able to see those who made them so as to swell your list. We returned to Fairfield at six p.m., fully compensated by sight-seeing for our trip up. Oar return to tins city was commenced com-menced at six o'clock this morning. We kept on the west side of Jordan river to West Jordan, where we crossed. At this place they have one of the prettiest and most substantial school-houses school-houses I have seen in this part of tha world; red rock with granite corners. The farmers of Utah county will be blessed this season with an abundance of water, if not too much, for the mountains on the east side of the valley are literally white with snow. Well, Iguvs that's all. Good day. Yours, respectfully, John E. Evans. |