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Show BALDWIN EXI5LORlNGTrKpT D1TI0N. Wlim'Mlmyhiive Im-n aiul wlmt tlisy have seen. Ki. owing thereat ii.u.v.st whieh ""'''-eLiki'i, in the expluni-ns, expluni-ns, d,s nm, t o t:il,Hv,1)loril,BK .( iell,,Al.Dllllsfn)m lime ,0 ( ' .ruKh ,oeour,esvor U,o .eader-M. .eader-M. A. !,;,,,,,, from ""r "w, ln.hiishci 1,,'n.r ,lc. .nUs of the whereiilHiuU md "hntolthodoiiiortheparlv. The exiiodilion l,vi8 dosal op'ormii,,,., .'' 11,0 w"", r, 'iH this morning S've an epitome of their j,,,,,,,,,.;,, Slluc they left the eitv last ,llv is o,u .eauei-s are aware, the eompaiiv wasort;a,,iI,d hy bnsine.-., ,m, and "pitaliau. of this oily and of the eastern eas-tern States, the ohjeets heing ,. rMus-lhalofearefullyaml i,ii,.lig,,. y examining the diseoverl ,!; V tah; ofaaeertaining tin, kinds, and grades olores in those ininesl.y eien-tilie eien-tilie analylieal tests; f stu.ivh the geological formation of the country; of exploring the unprospeelixl regions of the Territory; of locating mineral ledges and developing the same, and of organizing new; mining cU6ir;ct,.. To accomplish all of this they were supplied with over,- requisite and apparatus ap-paratus required. A llrst-eliiss laboratory, labora-tory, a portable furnace- for making fire assays, an outfit of matcriaU sul-ricent sul-ricent lo make three thousand assays, chemicals for making humid tests", a Ungke's blow pipe set, and tools for both surface aud deep iniuing, were among their outfit, thus making it one of tho best prepared expeditions for the purpose whieh ever skirted out. The entire party consisted of twenty-three men, most of them- inured in-ured to mountain life, Thev had their own conveyances, and Jwere dependent de-pendent on no one for accommodation. accommoda-tion. For the leadership of this expedition expedi-tion no more competent man could he found than Major Baldwin, Deputy U. S. Commissioner of mines. A lliorongl, goologiet, haying enmidcr able knowledge of the country ' over which it was intended to go, and withal being an active business rmm,-hc rmm,-hc was the right man in the right place. The assayer was Frofessor Vnomas M. Blossom, of the fcchoul of, Mines, Columbia College, Xcw York; and a gentleman who is known all over the country as a skilled mctal-urgist. mctal-urgist. W.T.Boardmau, engineer, late of the Stewart Mill and Mining Company, Com-pany, Colorado, was tho surveyor and engineer of the expedition- To give a complete and full account of the journcyings of the expedition .hoVever interesting it might be lo the public would reipiiro more space ,'..., , K.i,- cn.lro .,i it,; ,;-o therefore wc shall only give a brief synopsis: oriiiit. e'tariing from this city last July, thev rirst visited Uphir and Camp Floyd districts, Tooele County. Of these two popular camps our readers are already well posted from the numerous letters published in these coiunm-. tiphir district, once the lino." tre 1Vrrt,"-V, w seltli'f down to steady' work, and unostentatious development. The numerous arastras in East tianon are quietlv grinding out thesilver from the manv' rich mines in the district, while liieVValkc-rmiil has, until recently, been turning out numerous silver hai. To nieniii.n either of the scores of promising pro-mising prosper -L- aud developed mines in the7listricl3without olhcra wbuid be invidious; and besides, the principal mines aro we'll known throughout the country. 'Yutevcu a brief notioeoi tiic districC would be ini-otnplctc without with-out it mentioned partially the Sunny-siik Sunny-siik mine. ', Lion Hill, and owned lay Mk Warrcrj Hussey, of this city. It w, consideixdjat the time one of the ni4i vahiiiile mines, not only in the .Ji-ttict but in tiic Territory; and recent re-cent developments have shown thai the estimate was not too highly laid. It will require years to removo the immense bodies ol rich ore to bo found in the ifi'wo. CAA1P FI.OVIl. Only a casual examination of the Camp Flovd miLCS was made, and from general observations the ma,,or gives it as his opinion that there are 5ocl mines in the district, but thev mil only pay by deep working. J i Tilt 'li-ilC--. " In t'ao Tintic districts, both cast and west, thev made careful and critical crit-ical examinations of the ores, and of tho developments. At tho time ol tlic'r VlsitrthO -Xtalro. mtnft. OWirCtl by the Eureka Mmjtil! company, li.vj been developed by two tunnels, each three hundred and twcnty-Jivc feet in length, the first intersecting with a shaft one hundred and sixty-five feet in depth, showing the mineral vein to he seventeen leet wide at the intersection. intersec-tion. Other interior openings had been made on the lode, exhibiting immense bodies of ore assaying rich in copper and silver, with a percen-la-e of gold. From assays made on the "round sampled ores produced ixtv-two ounces of silver per ton. Thero were live thousand tons of ore on the dump, with prospects of the pile being increased to an unlimited amount. , The Crimson Mammoth was also examined. It is on the same lode as the .Mammoth Copperopohs, mid in the value of ib ore and the extent of its development corresponds with that celebrateel mine. A shaa wo hundred hun-dred and sixtv feet deep had been intersected in-tersected by the main working tunnel r,,ur hundred and; sixly-hvclect long. From the tunnel two drills, one cn.-,,.di.,L' cn.-,,.di.,L' north one hundred and s xh feet the other south eighty leet, had ."- ' . .i. -,s :,ko a dnlt from the main shaft one hundred and twentv feet front the lloor ,C ' lun el, besides two others on the ,e level-one of them one hundred 1 thirlv feet north.lhe other eight -1 ve feet south. The . nine had produced pro-duced alwnt threai thousanel tons ol ,-e7 Since that time extensive de el-, el-, , , cits have been made on 1 of . lusc valuable properties, as there 1 I,-,, have been on the other 1 h iHhpr -hieing d,str,et,olli,c roast. outside of a leiv '1'rcef ; nde sh- lvho,y u,e,- to. has , ,'unti. . 7, ,V1V ,,r dcvelop- ''VT'idy 1' i'' i''u "'"'''f my. a large body "f '' V "vi, done l-t':U,l"0!1", d hc n "thing ; the district, .11. no which can I"'"!'0' ,;" ,'. !; is a rail-lying rail-lying llnro lor the lakin... v iiLAM-t: lam:. ' --'everal pioinis'.ns lwi' "c"" il 1 ', "', IV,i'U r district, I. .. eel ttlMll I,,, miles north of Sl;lr ' ";r """ TheonlvdevclV m lU. otanyixjiw'qucnceareon the Ca ,n ff'S OW,,wl ''S' lfvrom i--tl f,i J 10 "in has hcini expos al lor several hundred fed, ,,,l ?' lon,s Of ore, working $a w have been taken. Tn'e mine 'is "o ; lan g iruutil ly work,d on a lease, e el t f,!'0"' V' ,lon0 0,1 scv' .i or Beaver W.Vill,';''''C STAR THE, jltux ,,i.ri'.ICT. But of the Star, about which so Tine "','':-! 1 1'raiseafew months lain,, ,"'u 1!l'khvin U,hlk3 'e hall has not been U,ld, II spcnt honVne'lllhis, devel y U'"'mls of tl ''"tidred eveloped mines,, and made assays of the on from at least that number. From his observation he has no hesi- ,.1 pronouncing Suir the future bamier district " of the coast. The coiiiaotlr'' "re S'-'ray true or contact hssurcs, contain everv variety of ores found in the Territory', of hi- i grade, and easily reduced, somcbeifig free milling rock, and other Hedges producing smelling ores. One, the tUnar, owned by c0pi0 of ticr mans, is turning out handsomely of gold while others arc silver and 'copper 'cop-per lodes. On tho elnmps of the mines visited, there were from fifty to nvc hundreel tons of ore piled up, "and untold wealth still in sight. The country rocks arc lime, granite and n,urtzitc. 1 this brief synopsis of so extensive a trip, we can only give a few ol the most prominent 'mines 111 tne district, which arc the Hickory Lookout, Rebel, Omar, (gold), Clipper, Clip-per, ieinperanee. Flora, Hidden treasure, Lake Superior, (copper), and scores of others of equal value. The North Star company, owning the Hickory, have one of th? most complete com-plete ten-stamp mills in the country in successttil operation, and are erecting erect-ing a refining furnace for rcdueiu" their crude bullion. The company is a Canadian orgtnizi'tion, and is "developing "de-veloping its properly with commendable commend-able judgment and energy. There is also one smelter in the district, the Shumar, located al Shaemty Springs. In a future issue we will give an account of the expedition's observations observa-tions in the iron and eoal fields of the southern couuties, and of some of the mining regions of Arizom and Southern South-ern Vlah. letter From St, George. Sr. (.ll-OE'.i:, b'tah, Nov. S, IS".. -M.m.'M: ' , The wealhcr hire is warm and tin fanners arc plowing and putting " their small gram. Busline-, , v.t dull and money scarce dh i church is about .complete., ami is , . cesJit to the citizens of out Dixie. Work is progressing on tnc tempi. fast as the circumstances of the pio-1 pio-1 permit. 11 is the intci.Lou I, work about two hundnd men , on "his winter. Bishop McDocud au others of this place are openmg coal mine sonic tweiilyliNc nine f: . i, which will bo of great ben many of the settlement-. 1 have visited some Vl t'.e 7 pods in this locality, ' ; !hcy have sonic pvd ore-. J -' Wc a tinochancv here Ion- . , .southern I t;ih :i h.,i u... umonry in ill do well to give .south m I .a., a hulc of their a-tenl.on. i.n . Uof . |