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Show . FROM UK A II LAKE VALLEY, Plcnsnnt Location Pfaturnl Advnn tajes Mining Prospect b, etc. St. Charles, Utah, Feb. 11th, 1873. Editors Herald: Will you allow me a Btnall spaco in our oolumns to ventilate a few ideas about this thriving settlement and its .prospects. & St. Charles is situated in the northeastern north-eastern portion of Utah on the western shore of Boar Lake. It is beautifully located on bench land sloping in a gradual descent to ono of the moat beautiful lakes in this country. Above the settlements the agricultural lands are fed by innumerable springs that afford more than sufficient water to irrigate land for a population of ten thousand people. Splendid crops were raised tne past season ; in one instance as high aa eighty-five bushels of v, heat to tho aero. We have game in abun- I dance, ana tne waters or iS ear Like i afford us Iho fineat trout in the world ; in fact, wo cannot bo surpassed in natural advantages in this mountain-i mountain-i oua country. We are thriving, healthy and prosperou?. To enhance our prospects, as a simple sim-ple agricultural people, is the discovery, discov-ery, some five miles south of us, of some large, and we are told valuable, copper mines. There are parties here now who are working tho mines and shipping tho ore to your city; that is, they aro makrng arrangements to do so as soon as our snow blockade is raised, The ore ia said to carry seventy per cent, of copper and $50 in silver fond cold. It is owned by Salt Lake parties, who put up substantial buildings last fall to withstand the rcien of the snow king. This company talk of pulting up a furnace as soon as they can get in with teama. We have fine water power and plenty of timber, so that if the mines should provo a sucogsb it will be of great benefit to our industrious peo pie, and if half what ia told should prove true, wo have a grand future in store. It is storming here, and I pity the manly mail carrier, who braves the worst storm of the season. Neil Kowei.l. |