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Show LETTER FROM CITY CREEK CANON. Modoc City, Oct. Ihh, 167:1. (5pecil Correnpoodeneo of the IIkbaliu) xrrt'MN, With all its beauty is now reveling in its coloring of foliage which cannot be truly pictured by pen or pencil, notwithstanding your correspondent, having a taste iur the pontic, quotes Freemen, who in his " Retrospection Retrospec-tion " says: u.Th Apen whiiH'r? to tlio Autumn I fife the gulden rfd on il"iiiR hill; I catch the odors of tin.- bruwn h-avt-dvir-j, Andhi-Hr the h:ihhl uf the ehniuk-'ii rill." And the tourist, vititing this camp may find pleiLsures innumerable in contemplating the beautiful scenery of the mountains and canons teaming team-ing with verdure tinted by the gentle loach of king Froot who in his . visits to mother Earth touches the tendcrest foliage with-n delicate haml, and the gran-iurof gran-iurof our hilln, 1U. present, cannot be excelled" by any locality on the coast. The view from SCOTT HILL is not only magnificent but beyond all reportorial description. The enchanting enchant-ing view trom this point can only be delineated by some more toreible pen than your humble correspondent is capable of wielding. Among the ttie miners the sublime is only a secondary sec-ondary consideration, the paramount object being thf. development of their claims. On the SUM m it m: si: twofhiftsarc being run, and tlie claim "gives up" from five to six tons per day, the grade improving as the work progresses, and the owners being live business men are pushing the work vigorously. On the RED BIRD tlie vein widens as the shaft is sunk, and the quality of the ore improve accordingly. 'This claim, together with the Summit, will eventually prove the finest in the district. At tlie GESERAL SCOTT, a new order of things has taken place, and as the management of the mine has passed into the sole control of Henry Lawrence, the working of the claim is being done in an economical and judicious manner. The ore taken therefrom is of a very fine grade. On the IJENKY MINE, Mr. lloople is running two shifts per day, and the showing is so encourag- 1 ing that the owners have concluded i to let another contract of 100 feet. At the mux Busy days seem to be the rule. "Morn, noon and night." This claim, with its sister locations, will prove the best in this district. Pursuant to a notice a miners' meeting was called some time ago for the purpose of locating and naming a town site. The location was made upon Saturday, in Cottonwood Fork, and christened San Domingo City. Xxiox. |