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Show Tho ltuldwin Expedition;. By private letter from the Baldwin Exploring Expedition, written from San Francisco Mountain, wc have the following news of public interest : Alter reaching Xephi, where several sev-eral tons of gypsum were taken from the mine of the company, tho greater portion of the expedition with the teams went on to Fillmore via Chicken Chick-en Creek. Professor Blossom and Superintendent Baldwin then went to Gunnison, through San Pete Valley, Fountain Green and Manti, across the mountains. Thence they went by Lone Cellar Pass lo Little Round Valley and Seipio, reaching Fillmore after 'five days of rough mountain travel, duriny which time they averaged aver-aged twenty-eight miles a day. The ranges east of Antelope Springs, t he Black Mountains, and the range cast of the White Mountains, were then carefully examined. Mr. Baldwin accompanied by Stanley Clawson, descended the crater of a volcano, of comparatively recent da,te, going to the bottom of it . some eleven hundred and sixty-eight feet in depth, the volcano vol-cano rising eleven hundred feet above the valley, and the crater bottom lying ly-ing sixty-fight feet below. The party then made careful and thorough examination of Beaver Lake, Star, Lincoln, Rocky, and South Star mining min-ing districts making many locations. Shir District was considered on$ of the most promising in Utah. At tho date of the letter the party were camped in the southwest portion ol Beaver county and were engaged in , examining San Francisco and Pine Grove Districts, nnd vicinity. Every-lody Every-lody was in goal spirits, well pleased 1 with the journey, and with the prom- ising prospects ahead. The country generally was found almost destitute iron country were next to be explored. |