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Show IININt; LKTTERKim.M T1NTIP. Je ltuM-n, l.-lsTbc Shoe-bi-i.lae I lu- .MuruiuS tilory llu- NomicsHU-The Victor 'I'lif J u tin ii I.aiie Aud I ho l.olil Hill. C.irr-i...n.Jen,-f -f ihv lit-- M l Pi -:osp. Tisric July Hih. li73. It may !., of inieiest to iiiany of your r.'.uhi wiio n--ide at a distance ftom T:im:-- to ..-a:n of it- pwgress. al.-l tiie nam re of the development joim: on :u:ion it-twelve huinlretl liallu-. 'I he Krid- Jits of t he district s.-eiu to realize u,..- het that the dark dav- of it- lii-ton- aie over, and that tiie eniiiideuee rei-td in 'he wraith ..f the mineral v. in- here ju-tifnd them iii -uomitliu to privations and , the ceiei-e of paUciicc and perseverance. persever-ance. Tia- following statements re-raiding re-raiding .-.me of the mine- in the localities lo-calities -pceiihd niiiv explain why we havef.lt reasonably a.-uml "f thl.ll U't i i,: , .i ,i... .11. - claim- iiiiiv be said to hoW as well from their' development as any here, while u but fair to .-late that there are other- v.a i'oirn-iie'. that I have not i-it.dib;- ,-ome little time and .whose present condition I cannot -tale. At pi. -cut no Work is Ix-ing .performed on the various mines ou the .loK liOWKKs l.Ern'K. Althou-'n the - Wcndigu company, throne h their superintendent Mr. I. lame- W. Wavne, state that they j will re-mne work soon, and punwse erecting a mill introducing the Paul ! proee.-s-. Mr. Wayne informs me he will vi-it Spnngvilic this week to learn particulars, and get estimates of the j cost ol a ten -tamp mill. Along the ! 1'owers ledge there is now something 1 like lilty tons of apparently good mill-1 mill-1 ing ore. Mcs-trs. To.-twin, .leil'ries & Co., of Council Blutls, Iowa, own six I hundml feet north of the Wendigo company's property on this ledge. Mr. Tost win shippfVl about four tons of their ore, which averaged from samples eighty-three dollars per ton, and is a free milling ore. The following fol-lowing assays have heen made from their ore. from picked samples s.3i2.tl2, Sli'K), -UH. a sample of thirty pounds lo7.14, while about thirty specimens average forty -six dollars, which may be said to represent repre-sent the ore now along the ledge upon the various dumps. thi; shoei;i(11)ok rias recenuy snow n us rcai hoi lm. Since the .Shoebridgc silver Mining Company have purchased it, they have performed a large amount of work. The shaft, nearly two hundred and tilty feet deep, was very small and u nsui ted to their wants. The company arc now busy enlarging and straightening the same and putting into position their steam hoisting works. Tor this purpose they are employing from ten to fifteen fif-teen hands, and will .-. nn be in condition to rawe large quantities of ore which 1 believe they have upon their properly. Various persons and companies have expended both time and money upon this claim with varied va-ried results. I believe the work has been done without special reference to economy or convenience for working the mine, leaving it in a very unsatisfactory unsat-isfactory condition for sale. However How-ever this may be, the present owners appreciate the situation, and having ample means and employing skillful men to oversee their interests, are Hiiite sure to bring about gratifying results. The ore from this mine has been reported the basest and most ! dillieult to treat of any in Tin tic; and j yet they believe by the Aiken process ' they will bo able to work it quite sat-j sat-j isfaelorily. It is high grade, specimens speci-mens showing from ninety to one thousand ounces of silver. I wns-ui-formcd that the result of a thorough sampling of the mine showed an average av-erage of one hundred anil twenty-four dollars. Much has been said about1 this mine through the columns of! your city pa pel's, therefore further "than to sta.u.- it tca n-cnmiiLt, l will not occupy your space. Xo mine could be more favorably situated. situat-ed. Their ore can be loaded into wagons at the dump and hauled directly di-rectly to their mill, of which I may make mention further along in this communication. The CMioebridge is situated about one mile north of Diamond. Dia-mond. THK .MOUSING Ol.OItY, Owned by ten or fifteen persons, mostly residents here, is one of the old claims of the district, embraces three thousand feet in its location and has been worked more or less during the last three years. Upon the summit sum-mit ot the i"aige near the north end of the mine, a shaft has been sunk about one hundred feet, from which they have taken a large quantity of copper ore, and quartzite, very highly stained. Mr. Brooks, one of the owners own-ers of the property, informs me that samples taken from this shaft have shown forty-six per cent, of copper, and a small quantity of silver. If I was called on to decide if this slali was upon the same ledge as the one fourteen hundred feet further south, I might be compelled to tunnel the whole way. At their lower shaft, which is about one-third of a mile north-westerly from Diamond, upon the low hills, they have performed a large amount of work, and have taken tak-en out considerable ore that runs very fairly in copper and silver, that seems to increase in value as they sink, in silver, taking the place of copper. Recently they have struck a pocket of tine ore, assaying over two hundred hund-red dollar. The. vein is well defined in porphvry and quartzite, and seeing to bear six degrees east of north, and west of south, which may be taken as the general course of all led ties in ,i.;- t--ri.,ii,. ,i;.t,-;,.t u-ihi is not a large vein it has been looked uiH.ni as reliable, and if owned by one pei-son or company having means tn open it, would command a good price. At present two or three are doing all that isdone. They have taken a few-tons few-tons of their ore to Miller's mill, to have it thoroughly tested, with a view of a-ccrtaining its value at the mine. THK XOHWKolAX Mine is situated up and down the southerly slope of Chloride Hill, about one and a-diiitl nnlea north westerly from Di;unond. It ia the oldest location lo-cation upon the hill, and was made . like the Sunbeam, when Tintic was . new. and the cost of recording claims p cun-iderably al-ove the prices estab- ' ! ii;iicd U- the present law. Like the ; Morning C-iury, the .Norwegian em- j braced three thousand feet, reaching t from the summit of the hill to the valley below, ome irregularities arc j ! said lo have occurred, concerning ibis ; I location. It has been re-located once ! j or twice, whether lawfully or not of ' i course remains for the legal fraternity j I tu fairly test, and no doubt they will 1 j have- a'eiiance. Xne mine, however, j ! has real merit, and a3 a mine we ; ! hone to be able 10 present it. At the ! discovery sUike, a shaft over seventy- j five feefdec-p has, been iunk, cutting ! : duwn the west side oi the ore, which 1 is verv highlv stahiui with copper. 1 One of the present owners imonncvl j ! me thai he " hod inkeu aonai; o t the j : s.me from the dump and Lid it as. ! 'saved, with very nattering result, i j The tody of ore in tiua m:t la aoout . I sevn feet wide. At a number of cuts j ! upon the led'-'c. higher up the hill 1 tl"-1 shows from three to hve f--et ; ofi.p Ti.ee surfa-'e ore-', hcuevev, ; do iot -o-'m to contain very mti.-h sii- j 1 ver. SiU' ihe lcdcv- is verv- brg.- : : holds it- c 'urse fo clcuily towanl the ' enti-e ,,f the h-iii. and seems sj high-I high-I !v lK;-!V-;-.lii.'.'d it entire le-ig-IO, thar l"ii.-.:-e . ir- rcarcely a du.u..-; thai n. wiil ;.r,v, Vl-ia-valuable propeity. M ';:--. au m, vrk is b..mg per:onn.d it,. .-.n.:i cLhnmig liiat tiiey - ' .-im. pi Lu haul ere of tin- t.-ha:-i a.-t. r m'..ur eitv. "-ih the c.-m- ' P'et:-.,, .".feopr- :-riu..ng w,ck-nei.', . y w-ii' l.e .il'ie lo male-; the pp-dtlet .uMli;i(;:.uli l? w-.h rewanl-d! |