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Show AUEKKAV 1'OKK HIVES. j IC-aTeir-jL-len-'e of the licraH., Salt Lake City, Aii!. Kl. KJitori it-mld: My reci:ut vi.-it to the "American Fork'1 and "Utile Cottonwood" min-j min-j itig muni enables me to submit I the iollowing items of mining new-i I'or i publication. AMERICAN ruKK. I limtid quite lively; one furnace running run-ning rcguiarly, with two others in cuur-e of construction, under the agency of Captain Bankart, for the purchasers of the Miller mine a company organized in London. The Mili'T nunc continues to develop well, yielding a large quantity of line-grade line-grade Mucking ore. The Alpine mine, di-tarn'e we-tcrly from the "Miller" ' '.'A) lect. I found in a vcrv advanced 1 state of development, having some '.j'i i led of incline and levels run thereon, proving beyond question its riyhi to be1 el:i. sid with the A I mines uf the j country; Home i i tons of line smelling, ore illcd up on the dump. j Tlie Wyoming uiine,iMj teet easterly I of the Miller, also presents evidence of f great value; the work thereon being far advanced all'unls an opportunity of funning a correct opinion. Tho ores of thc.-:e minus are identical in character charac-ter of mineral. The Bullion, Ilibernia and Nevada, three locations about half a mile westward west-ward of the three former, and on the same ridge of mountain, arc well1 under d'-vrtopmi'iit, work being pros-. edited continuously, and present all the evidence of good mines, the ore belli" of rather iiimmiiil high grade, niiigiug from 1"0 (o per ton, with regular and well delincd vein;). from I ho latter L cros tho head water" of the American Kork northerly to the Pittsburg mine. Standing abovo the stream at an altitude of nome 900 feci, perched, as il were, on one of tho many projecting shelves of the lime strata which constitute the bold and precipitous front presented by the mountain range, vhieh divides American Ameri-can fork from Little Cottonwood canon nt this point; this mine, I must confers, con-fers, surprised me, having heard but little of it to the time of my visit. I find iu the Pittsburgh mine a regular strata vein, running northeast and southwest between the helm ol' country coun-try rock on an angle of incline of forty-seven forty-seven degrucs, with a full thickness of nino feet of lirst-eliiss mineral of til'ty-four til'ty-four per cent, of lead and silver, ranging rang-ing from tf-l.j to $7; per ton, at a rlmitl, rtf t'.-iviv iM Tim ulr. fill tlir way is regular with smooth walls, and no second-class ore is to bo found anywhere any-where in tho mine so far. A sido level has been run northeasterly on the vein several feet, displaying the same extent of mineral vein as in tho shaft. This is one of the real representative mines of that mineral region. The owners aro I ho Brothers llussey, of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania, who own one half, and Messrs. Onge and Kennody, who own the other half. TUoy nqw proposo to erect smelting works lor tho reduction reduc-tion of their ores, some 175 tons of which have been already taken from the incline and short level alone. Several other valuable locations arc in the vicinity of tho Pittsburgh, many of which are owned by tho same parties. par-ties. The most advanced in development develop-ment are the War Eagle, Pioneer, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Returning from tho Pittsburgh locality lo-cality I nest came on to what is known as Mineral Klat, situated immediately west and north-west of American I?ork creek at its head, quite an extensive section of mining country, in which has been discovered very many really promising mines, tho development on which lias not been sufficiently ad-vauccd ad-vauccd to justijy an opinion as to their permanency. Crossing from here over the divide J-it-tlp C'ottoitiroari lauuu, atretic head waters of the crock of that name, the first mine oi'note met with is the Wellington, owned by Mr. Young & Sou of this city. Here I found before me a mine in tho true senso of the word, as along au incline of eighty feet in length on an angle of thirty-nine, passing between regular walls, a vein of high grade argcntilcrous galena with au average width of five and a half feet, is to be seen, and from which some 1-0 tons of ore of sixty-two per cent lead, with $-f per ton silver, have been extracted. This mine, like the Pittsburgh, promises to bo one of the standard mines of this Territory. As my rambles through the mines of Little Cottonwood was much more extended, ex-tended, necessarily rcquiringmore space for the matter collected there, I will close for the present, promising to give you all tho information worth noting from tho mines of this section, as also to ventilate some "wild cat" R'hcuies, which I discovered about to be or already organized, ou the principal of several millions capital stock with mining prospects as a basis; of boulder locations and a few scratches on the surface of the ground, without a trace of mineral except the brass of tho promoters. There being several of those "wild cat" projects now on foot, and being conducted by some of our high-toned gentry, uuder the guise aud in lUc namo of religious liberality, tho timo is come when to save the character of the country from the disgrace dis-grace of failures innumerable in mining min-ing operations, all practical and honest men should be prepared to write them down, to which end I trust the liEit-ald liEit-ald will lend a helping hand, by opening open-ing its columns to truthful statements' of facts alone. Observer. |