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Show LITTLE COTTONWOOD MlNlJiG ! Alta, Dec, 20, 1872. Young as is our camp when com-I com-I pared with tho generality of noted I mining camps on this coast, her I achievements and successes in the vast i field of prospecting havo been most signal, lj lact, by giving to the mining min-ing wor d Buch productive and dividend divi-dend paying mines as the Emma, Flagstaff, Matilda, Davenport,Vailejo, Grizzly, Winsor mines. Frederick, South Starand Titus, Fuller, Highland High-land Chief and a host of others, to say nothing of tho grand array of opening and promising prospects, it has been Dlaccd under everlasting obligations to " ye honest miner" and tho hardy prospector of Utah. . THE EMMA - " Is now shipping at the rate of 95 tons ore per diem, Fomotioics their shipments ship-ments exceed 100. Keport says another an-other and far richer body of ore has been lately struck io this chief of Utah's silver mines. TUB FLAGSTAFF Keeps up its regular shipment of 45 and 50 tons of ore daily. No change that I am aware of. TOE OHIO, Situated west of the Emma, has an incline in-cline shaft sunk to the depth of 225 feet on the vein, several levels have been run on ore, and another, ou teet from the surface, is now driving. The ore is of a carbonate nature, and very rich in silver, besides oarrying a heavy per cent. lead. No ore shipping at present. THE DRIZZLY Has developed itself in magnificent shape under the able management of E. P. Sawtelle, who understands min ing fully in all its branches ; as the sale and workmanlike timbering will attest. No end to the ore. Shipping slowly, on account of tho wretched ' condition of the road from the mine to Alta; not exceeding ten to twelvo tons : per day. TUB OXFORD AND GENEVA TUNNEL j Is rapidly and satisfactorily Hearing . its destination, hard rock and hoavy working being no barrier to its progress. pro-gress. Over 100 feet of the 150 feet to be driven, have already been com- ! plcted. Indications are favorable for j the cutting of another vein before reaching the Oxford on the line of the Tunnel. The Oxford will be cut at a i depth bordering on 130 feet, when a large body of mineral is confidently I expeoted to show itself. ! THE VALLEJO Averages a. daily shipment of twelve to fifteen tons, and has lately made a rioh strike in the bottom of the shaft. It is now looking better and richer by far than at any previous tiuio. This mine is under the able management of L. U- Colbath, who has also charge the Emma liill consolidated tunnel, which is being vigorously aod rapidly pushed forward. This tunnel will do doubt out very rich veins io its course, and at a depth sufficiently great to insure in-sure permanency and well defined crevices. . . , , THE MATILDA Is growing so rapidly in its proportions that it seems almost impossible to get any correct estimate of the immense mass or deposit of ore in the vein. It is said by those who hare been to the mine, that the vein is positively twenty-four twenty-four feet wide and filled with ore of extraordinary richness. No one here doubts the fact, but that the Matilda ranks next to the Emma to-day, and many claim that it is not excelled by the Emma so far as has been seen, and with the developments at pre soot attained. THE DAVENPORT !Vein has been struck by the tunnel and drifting toward the old working shaft is in order. The ore hou?es of tho atU.U Bt,A n-i iron n nrt . h..lr full of ores which arc being Shipped just as speedily as the condition of the roads will permit. THE MONTEZUMA, One of the Winsor group, has of late made a rich strike. This Budden uncovering un-covering of a fine body of ore adds to 1 the already well deserved reputation of this group, which comprise the Savage, Montezuma, Hidwatha and Last Chance mines, owned by Detroit gentlemen and managed by Mr, Win-slow Win-slow ably assisted by John McCrystaL These gentlemen deserve to be thus , rewarded, as they havo invested largely in Utah mines and aent many honest miners on their homeward road rejoicing. re-joicing. THE DARLINGTON - - Has lately opened up, showing a fine body of ore, which assays very well i for a surface deposit, and giving every evidence of a No 1 mine. Among the most promisiog prospects pro-spects at their prc?ent development, that bids fair and will eventually olass themselves among the producing mines of Cottonwood, are the Florinda, New York, and Topeka on Grizzly Hill, the Cashier, Hero, and Detroit on Matilda Hill, the Ectie and Royal George on Emma Hill, and the Katie Fisher, Alpha and Eliza on Peruvian Hill. The storm king is chief in Little Cottonwood to-day; snowing and blowing blow-ing with a terrible vengeance |