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Show Little Cottonwood. The buow has all disappeared from the south side of the mountains in Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyon, but in many places on the north side it still lies to a depth of from two to five feot It is estimated that there are at present fifteen hundred hun-dred men employed in tho mines of that locality, and that active operations are in progress in more than one hundred hun-dred mines. Several new and promising promis-ing discoveries have recently been made. Business at the present time is brisker in that region than at any time since its discovery and occupation. Several new buildings are in course of erection in Alta, and the town is literally liter-ally jammed with residents and strangers. strang-ers. Every hotel and lodging house is full to overflowing, and it is a difficult matter to obtain a bed for the night Times are lively, and merchants, hotel keepers, saloon men, eta, are gathering gather-ing a harvest of greenbacks. |