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Show OUR DRY CANYON LETTER. More Mines Visited; Rich Ores aud Plenty of Them. New Discoveries and Livoly Times. (Special t'oiroapondonoo of tho llorald.) Duy CaSon, May 20, 1871. The variety in camp, to-day, lias been a snow storm; all over with tonight. to-night. Camp is lively and getting more bo every day. Strangers aro becoming thicker than buzzards around. a carcass. car-cass. Working old claims is lively aud some Df them with goal results. Tin: nt a lode, Not the one alias Kcarsarge, but the one that Sailor Jack is superintendent of for Jeter Clinton, Mike Fuller and L. I. Smith, ia being worked and is a fine looking pmspect. It is located in Occident Oulch. about half a milo above the town of Silver Gate (I hat is the new thing for the mouth of Dry Canon). Tho Ira mine produces tine free milling ore of high grade. Miko Fuller says (I givo my authority) that Judge Clinton took four men oil' the chain-gang, dead-headed them over the stage line, and then charged Mike (one of tho proprietors of the line) $1 per day for their work on assessments. THE SKY GA.ER MIKE, After being idle for about a year, Is now being workal constantly. This, I think, as also tho lra, is on one ot tho great veins that strike through Mahogany Hill. TIIK MOL'ST SAVAOG -MI-Nii Is now employing a good forco ol men. They aro also putting up new buildings for mine purposes, boarding houses, etc. THE I'LOVILLA AND Ul"EEX OF THE HILL Have built a new shaft house and arc erecting other buildings. These mines are valuable and are improving every day. Rceentlythcore changed and they are now producing an ore rich in sulphates sul-phates of lead, that will be ia great demand as a valuable smelting ore. The volume ol it is also enlarging. THE JOHN CABOT MINK Is turning tut well. .The ore is high grade, with but little lead, and promises large quantities. THE IHJSENBERRY MINK Is a tine looking claim, now being worked with Haltering results. The ore is gotxl grade in both lead and silver. The owners of THE MAGNOLIA MINE Are now beginning to reap the harvest har-vest for which they have so long sown seed. On their dump, to-day, I saw some very line ore, apparently lree miiling and of high grade. It is destined des-tined to be a leading mine. The Mono people have their steam hoisting works in full blast, and their whistle echoes back the shrill call of the Chicago, giving encouragement to all in camp. But the Mono id being hedged about by claims, all seeking the same objective .point. The Magnolia Mag-nolia is -id- feet west of it, and between be-tween thorn are the Lone Tree, North Star and Diamond. The JjOuc Tree has a shaft over 300 feet deep, it is said on a vein of ore all the way down, but no dividend; however a rest has ht-cn taken, and it is not now worked. 'I he North Star I which number I do not know, as there are so m my ot them iu this district in fact, to call a claim North Star is like naming a boy John Smith) is only about loO feet from the Mono, has a shaft only about thirty feet, but all on ore wide vein of ledge matter, aud a better pay ore. The Diamond is about thirty feet nearer the Mono, with a shall about forty feet deep, and to-day exhibited some very rich ore, which they said came oil' of the foot wall, where thero was about (our inches of it. This Diamond lode claims to he about the oldest in camp, and the boys say it was located by the soldiers I of Caisar's army in Flanders, in the year 02 B. C, but I don't believe it. I think they intend to be sarcastic. At any rate, the locators of it have been a long time making up their minds .to work it. Perhaps it was with them a question of time slightly slight-ly distinguished from eternity. THE ELGIN AND BROOKLYN MINES, I visited to-day. This Brooklyn has always been one of my brag mines. To-day it over-laid anything have ever said about it. At a depth of about 100 feet there is a splendid body of ore, to say the least four feet wide, of solid ore, and over live feet between walls. There has been a change ol ore here too, it now being a milling ore, which I think it will carry down. The ore is undoubtedly rich, and is very pretty, resembling ChlorideHill ores. 'Die volume of it is on the increase, in-crease, with the formation becoming more regular and positive, giving evidence evi-dence of having reached a point where a great vein ol rich ore will continue con-tinue down increasing as it goes. The Elgin also has just entered upon a large deposit of beautiful yellow yel-low ore, carrying lead sometimes called ctubonaLo, yet with the biue and green stains that indicate rich ucss. What the extent of this is. is not known as it was just struck. 1 alsp examined the THAU. STEVENS MINE To dav, and found the strike to be all that is claimed for it. At a depth ol a little over VJ0 feet tho vein opens : out to more than the size of the shall, so that the shaft is surrounded on all sides and bottomed with ore, anil that, lu", of a good gnw.le. llirlil) carries a little galena, some sulphates of lead, and other base metals, yet free milling ore is coming in quite Ireelv. Sumo very beautiful sneci-mon's sneci-mon's I saw in the mine; such ore as gave Ui I'i'iche its importance and success. The nha(lon this mine has a dhi or pitch of about eighty degrees, or in other words it is ten and one-half one-half degrees remove 1 fnnu a'pcipcu-dicular, a'pcipcu-dicular, the inclination being lo the south, or ijown the bill. The wall on the south or downhill side is por-pbvry por-pbvry say a sienitic or porphyry, while the other wall is a slate or limestone, lime-stone, such us makes up the country rock of Shoo Fly hill. Tho course of the vein is north, 3HJ degrees east, and as I have frequently and, is the severance of the great vein that underlies un-derlies tho black slate reef above the Mono, but which is broken by a lault at Shoo Fly hill. . The mine is owned by Ldah Unim-berlin, Unim-berlin, John Hutchins, J. O. & -McCarly, of Cleveland. Ohio, who have also bought the American Hag and Ivanhoe, being older titles thus clearing oft" all trouble., and with these they certainly have a valuable property. 1 rejoice at their cood fortune, for I look upon these mines us they appeared to day promising to take rank as second to none but the Mono. I his vast bonj of ore, its extent not yet known, cannot can-not fail them.hut will from al indications indica-tions increase and continue both in volume and value. THE ITUST CHANCE MINE One of the claims ol the Mono No. 2 company, J also visital and found to be a flattering prospect, with every indication of a strong vein of good oro. NEW lUriCOVEKtlvS Have been made on the hill north-east of , town, in a locality heretofore but little prospected, but the great striko in the Thad. Stevens has turned the points of tho picks and shovels in that direction, and every anxious prospector is now huntihg for the extension of tho old Thad. If anybody any-body thinks that this is not a "growing "grow-ing camp" let him come out here and sec. I am "done talking." Sl'ICEB. |