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Show iMOtnii ad its nnxi-:s. Editort Ikrald ; The ehipmenta of bullion from Pioche almost daily, has caused considerable con-siderable excitement regarding the mines in that section, and many arc 1 leaving and others preparing to go, I without properly considering whether I employment can be obtained. Allow I mo pro bono jnMico (as I lived in Pioche from April to Nov. Cth prcs-I prcs-I cnt month) to state tho situation us it is and will bo all winter. Pioche was destroyed by firo September 15th last. The town is rebuilding fast, but the residents aro all poor, having lost everything in the lirc,and buincsss generally gen-erally is very dull and money scarce. All tho bullion wo seo cornea only from the Raymond & !y, Wcadow Valley and Pioche companies. ' Their mines aro ca3ily worked, employing but lew hands. Most of the ore being soft and dccompo?ed accounts for the few miners needed. The ore from the LVnaca, which is tiio rich mine of the Paymond & lily, and undocbtedly tho richest silver mine ever discovered on this coast, is m easily worked mined as siand or ashes. Thousands of tons of good ore from various mines, about Picche, arc already out, but can not be crushed for want of custom ; mills. This is the great need of Pi-; Pi-; oche; two or three thirty-stamp mills could bo usod, night and day, lor two years to come from ore already oa the dumps. The little five-stamp custom mill there is a poor afhiir and can't i woik ore to more than 40 por cent, of I its truo value. Pioeho is uot one-third prospected yet, and miners who have money to spend in prospecting cannot strike abetter mining section. Constant employment for. wages is not to be had; there are from 500 to 7o0 idle men now there, The Meadow Valley Co. ' discharged thirty-five men two or three -lays belbro I left, and tho "Pioche" j Co, havo discharged most of their men j tili certain needed changes and im- I provementa about tho works are made, j For the benelit ol' tho miners many i of whom I havo worked with and ! piv-f'cssionaliy served since early in j 184'.) I write. Let them pause and j letlect before rushing headlong, wTcrc they can't well go further without going j to Arizona aud the Apaches. D. Virgil Gate3, M. I). , Salt Luke City, Utah, ; Nov. 27th, ISTi. |