OCR Text |
Show LETTER FROM LITTLE COTTONWOOD. COT-TONWOOD. Cwrro!iondenco of tho Herald.) Alta City, December 10th, 1ST2. Everybody and their friends in Salt Lake city are supposed to be posted regarding affairs in Alta city. I can assure most of them that they are mistaken, if they think they ever experienced ex-perienced such charming weather as we denizens of Alta are now enjoying. It is clear, pure and bright, with a temperature as agreeable as that enjoyed en-joyed in the valley without the dampness damp-ness which evaporates from low grounds. We are high enough to enjoy en-joy pure air and can irrigate regularly without getting as "high" as they do io your city. I grant that the whisky supplied here, could be dispensed with, and give health to the consumers and leave money in their purses. Tbo snow has almost entirely disappeared from the road aod is rapidly melting on the south side of the mountains. What a pleasant contrast to last winter, when at this time we were blockaded and floundering in snow ten feet deep. Overcoats are now discarded aod "ye honest proprietors of the seven saloons" sa-loons" can sit on their front porches (providing they have any) and pensively pensive-ly whistle for customers. The fine weather has a depressing effect oo the ''hot Scotch" and expatriates the Bourbon. The mining prospects of the camp are increasing, and large deposits de-posits of ore are being daily discovered. Aloro ore is beiDg extracted from the mines, than over before in iho history of the camp. A larger number of men and teams aro now engaged in transpsrting tho ores, than at any other time heretofore, and yet employment employ-ment could be given to almost double tho number, the demand being so much greater than the supply. Among tho mines that are now daily shipping ores, may bo mentioned the Emma, it'lagstaff, Davenport, Vallejo, the Winsor group, comprising tho Sav-ago, Sav-ago, Montezuma, Hiawatha and Last Chance, and tho Grizzly and Pocahontas. Poca-hontas. Among somo of the finer prospects pros-pects we would call attention to tbo fopeka and Darlington, each of which shows a tine vein of ore, from twelve to twenty inches in width. The last mentioned mines are located juat above Grizzly Flat. Grizzly is not a very large or populous place, haying been built only to meet tho requirements re-quirements of iho attaches and workmen work-men ou the Davenport mine. It contains an outfitting store, Btcam saw mill, two boarding houses, two sa-loo sa-loo OB, and the office and ore house of the Davenport mine. The buildings are substantial and comfortable By far tho most remarkable mine in this district is tho Davooport, which even outrivals the world renowned Emma, heretofore acknowledged as Queen of the Cottonwood. On tho S'.h of tbo present month, a consolidation took placo between tho mine known as tho Matilda, and the Davenport, the latter bciog adopted as the name of the company. 'iho tunml of tho Davooport has reached a disiaoco of funr hundred and 3cventy 1'eut, at tho end of which a side dnft has bcfn run twenty-five j feet, at which was found a vein of fino ore two feet wide. Near the discovered sbafi of ihu Davenport, on tho north-i north-i crn slope of tho mountain, aa incline-! incline-! has been run a ditnnco of two hundred hun-dred nnd cichlyciKht f'crt, at tho toot of wMch is a vertical shaft forty fivo lect in depth. Tho incline follows the vein tho whole distance, from which largo quantities of ore have been x-tractcd x-tractcd during tho working of the same, leaving, at several points along the course of the incline, veins, ranging from three to ten feet in width. At tho foot of the incline the vein is fully six feet wide, the lowest assay producing $166 to tho ton in silver. Tho discovery shaft is nixty-five feet in depth, with two drifts at the bottom, bot-tom, ono twenty feet north, the other twenty feet south, .both showing tiae ere in laree deposits. Tho "Matilda" shaft of the "Davenport" "Da-venport" mine is situated south about fivo hundred feet from the discovery, and is now one hundred feet in depth, almost the whole distanco being through a solid vein of ore, tho richest and most remarkable that has ever been found in this district. The south drift on the Matilda shaft is eighty feet in length. The vein io this drift is fully sixteen feet in width. The drift is thoroughly timbered, being be-ing necessary on account of the crumbling crumb-ling nature of the ore. The north drift is seventy-five feet long, developing develop-ing a lodge fully twenty-five feet in width by actual measurement, the ore averaging $200 per too. The timber ing is thorouKh and workmanlike, and the best in tho district, reflecting great credit oo the superintendent. The tramway from the mouth of the tunnel to the ore house, about 500 feet io length, is substantial and adequate for all the purposes desired. The only trouble cow seems to be the transportation transpor-tation of the ores. Tho owners of the Cottonwood mines are looking anxiously anxious-ly forward to the completion of the narrow gauge railroad which is now being be-ing rapidly constructed and which, if the promises of railroad men can be depended on, will be finished to Granite Gran-ite city within sixty days where is intended in-tended to be the winter terminus. Hudibras. |