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Show LETTEK FROH LITTLE COTTONWOOD. COT-TONWOOD. Correspondence of the Hksald. Tht storm Snow ad lib. Mining aceldent--Mall (ronbleMore norm 4.C. AltaCity, Feb. 2, 1S73. Editors Herald : If there is aDy weather wanted in your city we caa supply it, either in zjpbyra, or wholesale it in laree posts, enough to suit the most fastidious. 1 The wind can blow more ways at once up here, and twist the snow in a thousand different directions in fifteen minutes, than any place lever had the pleasure to sojourn in. It only clears up here long enough for the clerk of the weather to get a good tight grip oo another stoi'tn, when he pours it upon our devoted heads with relentless fury. The scow, now, is irom one moh to one hundred and twenty feet od the level, with plenty more of it in sight up above. Wo occasionally get the mail now, but with no thanks to the contractor ; he is too mercenary to pay a man to pack it to Alia, but occasionally occasion-ally will accommodate a man who wishes to do it as an act of charity to us poor suow-bound bumaos. We have not had a newspaper for two weeks. We Can see no exouse for tne negligence, as men are goiDg up and down the canyon every day. This letter is Dot trusted to the tender mercies of "Bill's"epizootic fry-weekly stage line, but to the care of a sturdy miner, who does these things for accommodation, ac-commodation, you know. The principal mines are still continuing contin-uing to discharge men. Ti:e ore houses are filled to repletion, with no prospect pros-pect within thirty days of obtaining transportation. Toe snow and epizootic is too strong in combination to bear acainsf. There was an accident in the Victoria tunnel on Saturdaj last, that came near proving fatal. Tbo workmen work-men had put in a charge of Giant powder that failed to go off. They then proceeded, like foolish miners, to drill it out. It saved them some labor by coming out itself, and in its haste it blew up a Cormshman. His hands and face were badly injured, but fortunately he will soon .recover. Accidents by the careless handling of powder are so frequent in mining camps that the victims vic-tims get but little sympathy. There is a furious wind storm raging now, eo that it is very inconvenient to prospect for news. Our recorder is waxing strong, and has nothing to do now but to store his mind with useful knowledge. We noticed him yesterday reading Beadle's last. More anon, Archibald. |