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Show j iliOIlF. ritO.iI COTTOMWOOD. Little Cottonwood, November 20th, 1371. EtWors Ikrel'b The snow storm continue--) with unabated un-abated i'liry. Many minors have been ; compelled to abandon their mines, and are striking lor more congenial climes. T he "gentle zephyrs" are whistling around my cabin as I wiite, carrying ; clouds of i 'lilting snow. The stages fail I to ccemecUii! 1 ' 'font pads" mu-t "carry the ii'jYs to Mary," and the press. Wo hear of no more fatal accidents from snow slides, although the latter are of almost hoiir'y o.eurenec all around us. Tho bo.ly of Charles Morris.m has not been recovered, and probably will not be until sprin He was a gentleman highly LV.Vcmed; an! leaves a wife in rather a destitute condition, for whom a collection was taken up to-day, which was lib-'raby responded to by all. The only other vb'thn of the treacherous snow was o;;o Matthew Jenkins, who v.ms engaged :i an outside drift of the Wellington mi;r and was buried alive at bis work. Several others have had narrow escapes. One man was carried i a distance of oOO feet on a slide, but j fortunately k.-i-t an outside seat (he whole distance. Three cabins were swept away from the J jexiugton mine, hile the men were engaged in the mine and probably "b.-t n;t;j;ii- hut tiU (,'irif had," except, ex-cept, themst i ves, e have almost as j mujh situw now as at any time lust winter, ti e I.:-! fail ui'the pa-t few days ; by ac'b d measurement over six j Vours c:c. , C |