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Show LETTER FROM HYO.IIING. Regular Correspondence of tho Hero Id. J Rawlins, Wyoming Territory, May 7th, 1S72. THE SEMINO MINES. Having just returned from a trip to the Semioo mines, I hasten to give you a few items from that place. After my arrival there, I first visited the Mineral Hill company's tunnel, accompanied by superintendent Hunt. Their main tunnel is two hundred and twelve feet long, with a drift of eighty feet to the right, running -at right angles with the tunnel proper. The tunnel and drift cross some eight or nino veins of quartz; tho width of tho widest crevice is seven feet ; the widest vein of quartz is two feet, with several smaller veins from eight to fifteen fif-teen inches. Assays made from quartz out of this tunnel, at Virginia city, Nov., give a return of from thirty to sixty-seven dollars per too, gold, with from a trace to four dollars per ton silver. sil-ver. All the quartz from this tunnel and the shafts on the hill, is more or loss copper Btained, and full of pyrites of copper; and occasionally a piece is found that shows a little galena. This company have suspended work for the present. THE SEMINOLE COMPANY. This company havo a tunnel in the Ernest Hill, one hundred and eighty-eight eighty-eight feet. They havo crossed four veins of quartz the widest of which is five feet of solid quartz : the others are from seven inches to one foot wide, the smallest of which shows considerable free gold. B. Ernest, Er-nest, Eq., superintendent of this com- Eany, informed me that his company ad sent two tons of quartz from their large vein to Colorado, to be crushed, so as to get something like an average return, as they could get no trustworthy trustwor-thy assays. Pieces of rock which they pounded up and could not get any color from, would assay from four to forty dollars, and from other pieces which prospected very rich, tho assayer only returned an average of six dollars per ton. This company have suspended work until they get a return from Colorado. Col-orado. There have been several leads of silver-bearing ore found the past winter. Mr. Kendall informed me some of his rock assays eighty dollars per ton; and : also some rock found by another gentleman assayed a great deal more. I was shown a piece of this ore which had been blistered, as they term it, and which to my uneducated eyes, looked as though it must be fabulously fabu-lously rich in silver, it being nearly covered with bright looking metallic specks, about as largo as pin heads. There is at present about twenty-five men in camp. Tho snow is still so deep that very little work can be done, it only being about four feet on the level. All the miners speak very sanguinely of there being a good camp there this season, sea-son, and every one talks as though he had the only good lead in camp. IRON ORE. Mr. Friend is getting out and shipping ship-ping ore at the rate of two oars per week. The Rocky Mountain Vermillion Vermil-lion paint company aro shipping some oro west; one E. X. Field, their agent, being the contractor, who is probably known in your city as tho person who has been figuring in a suit with Messrs. Walker Bros. The iron land has been in litigation for some time, but as we now have a term of court the differences differ-ences will probably be settled satisfactory satisfac-tory to all concerned. soda lakes. Several parties here who purchased Mr. Horbury's interest in tho soda lakes, near Independence Rock, talk strongly of soon commencing operations. opera-tions. One of the gentlemen informed me, a few days ago, that the soda was worth seven and a half cents per pound at Chicago, and that they could dispose of all they could get out at that figure. 6TA0E LINE. Messrs. Smith k Morgan are making mak-ing preparations to put on a tri-weekly stage and fast freight lino, to run from Rawlins to Seuiino. I also understand they have tho contract to carry the mail between the aforementioned points, commencing on the loth prox.; a post office having recently been established there. POLITICAL. The Territorial Republican convention conven-tion comes off here on the ?th inst., to select delegates to the Philadelphia convention. More anon. Claude. |