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Show LETTER FROM LITTLE COTTOK-WOOD. COTTOK-WOOD. Alta Citv, April 21, 1S73. Editors Ikmhl: The weather at this place for the past Week has been all that we could desire. Under the iuHuenccof a warm sun and clear skies the snow has disappeared rapidly .:id already many bare spots are visable on the south hill sides. As a consequence the roads between Alia and lannerville have bceniMe very soft and ore teau-j havo a difficult time in going down the canyon. tub i:jima. The Emma has shipped Iwen'y-five tons per day during the week, hvery-tbiog hvery-tbiog about this uflrbraitd mine if netting in complete working order. They aio arranging every thii g in a satisfactory manner for a eucoobsful season's work. An unfortunate accident occurred at the Emma mine on Sunday morning between 1 and 2o'elock, which resulted in the deathof John Smith. We wish to perpetrate no joke. This John Smith was a native of Germany, and has been in America somo ten or twelve years. He has been employed on tho touitua mino since April lie was killed in a slope, by about three tons ot vein matter tailing upon turn, caused through negligence on the part of himelf, in not timbering his ground when ordered to do so repeatedly by the night foreman He was also advised advis-ed hy the men workiug behind him t,o timber his work, as it was dangerous, but he remarked that he would work his shift out and let the next ones do the timbering. Ho blame can be attributed at-tributed to the management, nor hai any cave taken placo in the mine as reported. Tho following effects wero found on the deceased: One silver watch (Elgin make) and chain, and one jack-knife. In his valine the following articles were found: One certificate of deposit for one hundred and fifty dollars, dol-lars, dated March 4th, 1873, on Wells, Fargo & Co., $3.60 in currency and 85 cents in silver; also a memorandum of a deposit in Wells, Fargo & Co., Salt Lake city, of $200, No. 1-239, on the 13th day of February, 1873, and one ticket on Little Cottonwood stage line, from Granite to Alta. There was a number of other small articles found but nothing was discovered to show that ho had any friends or relations in this oouotry. As the name is so common it is not probable -that his friends or relatives will ever bo any the wiser as to the whereabouts of John Smith. FLAGSTAFF AND TALLEJO. The Flagstaff has shipped Borne thirty tons daily. Everything about tho works of this mine are working in a satisfactory manner. The Vallejo has again wheeled into line, and has shipped about one hundred hun-dred and forty tons of ore. The wire tramway is always in order, and has only to be started to do its work successfully. suc-cessfully. The tramway on this mino is tho most complete enterprise that has ever been Btartcd in tho Cotton woods, never having failed for a day. WELLINGTON AND GRIZZLY. Tho Wellington mine has shipped only about five tons during the week; they will resume their shipments as soon as the rnads are in better order. Tho Grizzly has shipped only twenty-five tons during the week. Their t jam way is now in working order, and we expect soon to ohroniole a better bet-ter record of this mine. DAVENPORT AND CITY OF ROCKS. . The Davenport mine has oompleted the repairs on the tramway, and are Bbipping about ten tonB daily. The Davenport smelter at the mouth of the canyon is now Btartod, and fiom the reports it more than meets the expectations of its managers. According to the evidence cf experts in Buoh matters it is the most oomplete and finest smelter ever erected in the Territory. The City of Rocks, one of the best developed and most promising mines of Little Cottonwood, -was resumed work on to-day. ' John H. Ely, manager, mana-ger, W. B. Smith, superintendent. There is about two hundred tons of ore at this mine ready for shipment, and plenty more in Bight ready for extraction. extrac-tion. It is developed by a tunnel two hundred and ten feet in length, and a shaft one hundred and fifty foot in depth. Salt Lake oity must bo purging itself as we are receiving daily largo invoioes of "soiled doves," but the "grass is very short" up hero. Archibald. |