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Show A PUFF FOR THE UTAH. Salt Like City, Xev. 2S, 1S73. HnviiiK heanl so much alout the nuw n.iicc'iilnilion works nnd the 0i.'r.i-iims t tle nlinM beloiiKini; to tho I toh Silver Mining conipiiuy of London, I took advanuico of tho opportunity op-portunity presenuxl shortly after my arrival hero, to visit these mines and works. Alter delivering letters of introduction in-troduction to the manager, Mr. Lonr;-niaid. Lonr;-niaid. we proceeded to inspect the uiiilei'iirouml works and euterotl the main tunnel, which commences on a level with the crusher floor ol the concentration con-centration works. Tins tunnel was made with a view to intersect all the veins on these mines. At the end of the tunnel, a very- large ho.lv of ore has heen exposed, n,l cerh.inlv the greatest that 1 have seen in any mine m I tuh. More work has heen done in the last threo months than was done during the whole two and a-half years under the former managements. manage-ments. After the ore is rcceivtj from the diflercnt shuUs into the cars, in the main tunnel, it undergoes very little manual lahor; for it is dumped into the crusher, then falls into the rollers hy its specific gravity, and henco is conveyul by machinery through all the diil'ercut processes, until the sUver and lead is concentrated up as high as SO per cent, of lead and lT ounces ot silver. As a milwright and practical machinist, ma-chinist, I am pleased to say that at no place in Utah, or even on the Pacific Pa-cific coast, have I ever seen machinery machin-ery more perfectly put up than is heme done at these works. I cannot see hoiv the company eivn fail to prove a perniaiientdividend paying concern, provided the present managers are al lowed to continue their operations in the manner they are now doing. J.B. |