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Show MORE ABOUT LITTLE COTTONWOOD- Thousands who read tho HERALD know little of the mines of Little Cottonwood, Cot-tonwood, their location, appearance, work dDno on them, or the quantity of ore being aluppod. From ootca made during a hasty run recently up the canvon wo propose to tell something about iho mine-) and tho placo, which may not be new to many, yet will have an interest to hundreds oi others. A short distanco above where the granite formation terminates and the 1 lime-itono formation begins, as referred refer-red to io Hie article oT last Wednesday morning oo Little Cottonwood, the cmyon widens out forming an ampht theatre, somo two miles or over in diameter, dia-meter, terminating in tho ridge at the head of Little Cottonwood canyon. On tho left hand, or north side, of this amphitheatre, am-phitheatre, the best developed mines are located. Hero are the Flagstaff, tho South Star and Titus, the Vallejo, theEmma.tho Savage, the Montcauma, the Ohio, and many others, which are now becoming widely known, and are capable of producing sufficient ore when fairly opened and fully worked to call into requisition all the rolling stock now in use on the Utah Central in shipping orudo bullion alone. Mining Min-ing in Cottonwood is but in its incipi-cnoy, incipi-cnoy, and consequently in Utah; but men owning mines propose to work thorn and draw profit from the digging and disposing of the ore, more now than formerly. The mines referred to are not widely scattered nor difficult of aoctiss. Within a mile to a mile and a half of Atta are enough ore deposits to afford permanent work for a largo Dumber of men and enrich the discoverers discov-erers or owners. Before coming to the mines named and best known, or west of them, are locations whioh promise equally as well, Tnth development. One of those, the Kmily, about three thousand feet west of the Flagstaff, principally owned by H, M, HendersoD, of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, Pa., with a shaft down 80 feet, shows a crevioe from four to six. feet between walls, yielding ore running from over $200 to over $300 per ton, with about thirty-five per cent- of lead. These figures aro given to show that tho ore deppsits are not confined to one particular place, but are found all through the limestone formation, this discovery being in it and just outside the granito; and following it around tho main ridge, locations have been made in great number many of them prospecting finely, and some having already developed into excellent mines. Among these, away up in tho bight of the mountains, near the ridge dividing Little from Big Cottonwood, close by a j spot bearing the bruinish name of Grizzly Fiat, are the Davenport, Matilda Ma-tilda and Grizzly, which are shipping ore, the Pocahontas, which has shipped, with the Wcstevelt, Amy Dagmar, Vau'dcrbUt, Royal George, Victoria, White Clond, Sherman and others; in fact Grizzly Flat is a nest of mines, a number of which will prove very valuable, valu-able, i Keeping on around the ridge and skirting a mountain standing out by itself on the east end of the ampithea-fro ampithea-fro in which being of granite formation forma-tion nothing has been found location after location is passed, until Peruvian hill is reached, on the opposite site of the canyon from Emma hill, about a mile and a half from Alta, and northwesterly north-westerly from the dividing ridge separating separ-ating Little Cottonwood from American Ameri-can Fork. A number of the discoveries discover-ies here promise very finely, the ore consisting principally of grey carbonates carbon-ates and galena. Lexington hill, on the same, or south, side of the canyon, is the scene of the principal discoveries being made at present, and sinkirg shafts and driving tunnels is the order of the day. The Lexington mine.from which the hill is named, has a three thousand feet location.divided into two parts the north-easterly of fourteen hun dred feet and the south-westerly of six -een hundred. Tho former hag a shaft-seventy shaft-seventy feet, all in ore, with a hundred hun-dred tons on the dump averaging $50 a ton. The mine is being worked, and there are parties negotiating for its purchase, as we are informed. There is not work being done at present on the other division, which has a shaft thirty feet down and a drift ten feet, showiog a ten foot vein of ore. Of Alta and Grizzly, and of some other particulars, we will treat in another an-other article. |