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Show t.UIPFLOV!).MInS. :C-Jrre-i"-'n-lenc: of the- He-raid. j In my la-t letter I fhuiild have 1 '!oken of the mirie-son the I'oot-hi Is in bia.-.t can'.n. Tiierc are several gcod I mines within a short di-tanee of (he HreeV'.ort mill on the other side of the j turnpike, 'i he str-jtigj. t cjee'entra-ti'.'iis cjee'entra-ti'.'iis of ore aj'pear lo be in the m.dgh-borbu m.dgh-borbu 'd of the Ualiir?, mi the !!. band -ide of the road, ami the Fed Jacket on the light. T he Ftihie ores are all uf a verv line character, almost entirely fri;..-. Th.'-c mines in a measure have been overlooked by capitalists, but the fact that they are -o near tlic uuiis and yiclel such a good (jmdity of ore. renders them v.urth the attention of those who desire to invent in mines . that can be easily and cheaply worked. Camp Floyd is connected with Uphir by a daily line of stages, run by Wines I Kimball. The distance h; about twelve miles by the" road; over Lion hill it is about six. The mines in this district present many interesting features. fea-tures. The concentrations of minerals miner-als are .-trong, and the outcropping of the ledges very large. The mo.-t noted lodes in this camp that I visited are he Silver Cloud, Mormon Chief, Sparrow Spar-row Hawk, Silver Star and Klkhoni; I there arc probably others which I did not see. The Silver Cloud was recently re-cently sold to English parties for a high iigure. There is a large force oi men at work on it, making exieu-j working of tho mine. 1 no- : fee that in your city papers there haa been tome controversy about the value of thid lode, Tlic outcrop pings on tho ledgo are very prominent." There ia a shaft sunk on the Cloud ! about eighty-live feet, and then a drift j run out l'rom this, shaft upwards of sixty feet in length. I made a careful examination of the ores taken from this mine, there being in tho neighborhood neighbor-hood of lilty tons on the dump. All appeared to bo of tho best quality of chloride with very little base matter in : view; and I saw half a wagon load of 1 ore freely intermixed with large flakes of horn silver. My companion, while examining these ores and ho was a gentleman who had largo mining experience ex-perience in Mexico and South America Amer-ica and had passed through a very varied mining experience on the Pacific Pa-cific since ''hi remarked as ho took up one of these chunks of horn silver, j that he had never seen such a eight j before in his lifo. They are shipping from this mine, as I was informed by tho workmen, half-a-dozen six mule wagon loads of ore per day. It will take a great deal of argument to convince con-vince mc that the Silver Cloud is not one of the best mines in Utah. The veiu is largo and compact so far as developed, ore appearing to be uniformly uni-formly interspersed in thogangue. Tho Silver Star is on tho western extension of tho Silver Cloud; and although not so well developed as the Cloud, it yet gives evidences both in-teriorily in-teriorily and csteriorily of being equally valuable. The Mormon Chief ledgo outcrops in a semi-oircle, on the lace of the hill, commencing with the Grecian Gre-cian Fend and Sparrow Hawk (tho Mormon Chief being in the middle) and ending with the Morrow ledge, so-called. The ledge is about three and a half miles in length. The outcroppings on it are uniformly prominent and very strong to tho oyo of a practical miner. It is indeed a monster ledge; anil my opinion opin-ion is that the owner of feet in it has something that will do to tie to. I believe tho Sparrow Hawk and Grecian Gre-cian liend have recently been sold .in London, tho exact amount I do not know. Tho Mormon Chief was sold some time ago to parties, I believe, in Omaha, and afterwards resold in London Lon-don as I have been informed. These lodes arc pretty thoroughly developed, showing Jargo bodies of chloride ore freely interspersed throughout the gauguc. Unprejudiced minds cannot out pronounce thoso mines as possessing possess-ing great mineral worth. (Jn the opposite side oi the canon is the Eikhorn and Delaware, with out-croppings out-croppings ucarly as large, and developments develop-ments indicating tho same quality of ore as the mines in Camp Floyd district, dis-trict, only that in many places antimony anti-mony is found mixed with the ore, necessitating, of course, the use of a roaster in reduction. I understand that the owners cf tlic Silver Cloud are about erecting a large mill near their mino. If so, and the capacity of the mill is commensurate with tho capacity capac-ity of tho mine for yielding rich chlorides, I sec little to hinder Camp Floyd district from becoming a very flourishing mining camp. li AMBLER. |