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Show BIXGHAM OAXO. IU1NKS. Reguln.r Coireapondonce of tho Herald. Binooam, July gJnd, 1871. Editors Herald: Our camp is extremely quiet; wc have no excitement, yet matters are steadily progressing. Quartz mining1 ia being pushed ahead pretty vigorous-1 ly, but no big demonstration is now on tho tapis. Men who havo good lodes are working and developing them, so that othoi'O LtAeitlo tbcrnsclTofl-caii rec. they have n good thing. A great number of valuable lodes are being now , worked to this end, and capitalists can' see what they are buying. Considerable property has changed hands here within the last ten days and a number of estensive sales are in contemplatiou. I could go on and enumerate the different claims that are about to be disposed of, but tho statement state-ment might not interest the general reader, I shall not attempt to do no. A lode by the euphoniua tide of the "Devil's Bunion,' looks remarkably well, thia vein is owned by our co-operative boys, and the majority of them not knowing how it looks causes me in , thia instance to make mention of any particular claim or owners. Work on tho gulch is progressing rapidly. In a few days wo expect to strike bed rock, then i'or the fulliluiont of our expectations. We are all of the opinion that this gulch will prove to be one of the richest in the world; if so a few hundred feet will be quite a nice little thiDg to havo. There is a report of more furnaces and a crushing mill soon to bo erected; one thing is oertain, crushing rock is ' now being discovered in quantities sufficient suf-ficient to justify several mills to be put in operation, and as l'or furnaces, thirty ' or forty could be kept busy. Our ore as a general thing ib low grade, but then we havo any amount of it, and we can show lodes that assay from one hundred to nine hundred in silver, and pretty good sized vcius at that. Several very nice copper lodes are being worked. Much difficulty is experienced with tho water, which of course can be obviated with steam pumps, and these will be procured as soon aB the owners see ore enough to justify the expense. A3 soon as bed rock is reached and they get to cleaning up, I will send you the results. We arc satisfied thai the ground is spotted, but the pockets will i pay sufficient for all the bare places. 1 Let us hope tho pockets will be pretty thickly interspread throughout the gulch, so that, those parties owning property iu lodes and gulch will realize sutbeientout of the one to thoroughly develop the other, and that these hand- some times we read about may be realized re-alized here as well as elsewhere. We undoubtedly havo got it if we only go I deep enough. " Yours ic, : . .. EB-S- |