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Show OUR OPHIR LETTER. ! The Rumbles of Spicer, the Walk-iat. Walk-iat. &c. lit Visit Hip Aiiiticrous .Tliiic nml l-'lKlits the Itlouil-(lilrMy Itlouil-(lilrMy Moxitislo. What 1m Srw and bow li Relates it. utcci il Ccrrcf -oaicncQ o; II balk) Iuv Canon, June f, 1 VI. "Head nUiirters in the saddle," was the heading ot Lien. Pope's dis- Cih. 1 have no saddle; .1 bae ts, mill it is rough on the In jots. On Monday I walk'rd over the high hills from Fuller's Hotel in''.)ae,ob-ses City," to the loot-ot Chloride Hill, in Fiist Canon, in one hour and four minutes! Who says I am getting old after this'.' On my' way 1 saw the r Ll A 1 A 1.1-1 J-OI -r., A fine prospect for a big mine, but will rcijiiirc much work, for which there is plenty ol encouragement. 1 also saw (lie old Star ol the Kwt, relocated anil culled the Lilly Hale; also the Pajtton and Fichops and some other names. It bud plenty of snow in the abaft and pretty free milling mill-ing ore in ahundanco on the dump. It is a valuable prospect and should bo vigorously worked, for just such ore is needed for the mills in East Canon, Tho McCullin has tlai ted up work in earnest and struck a tine body of high grade Ore, sulphate aud cur'ion-atc. cur'ion-atc. The ryjii MAN MINK I also Faw. Tliis mine was recently purchased by Walker Bros., who are ii"W working it with a strong force of men. The vein is large, strongly marked and well defined. The ore id not of high grade, but good galena and carl-onales for smelting. I lojk for this to turn up some of these days as one of the leading mines of Opbir. I saw thctirey lode, which is now being worked and is producing very nice chloride milling ore. Also the Resolute, which is a line chance for a good mine; rich ore and good vein; free milling. Also the Oh lurid c Cem , J iiu Fisk, Ob lor id c L4lueen, Struck It, and eonic others, of which 1 have sjo'icu too often to write more now. The C"HL"R1I.'L (jt'KK.N ANLrJIM I IK 1 gave particular attention t) this time, and found them to be about the same vein, owned and worked by the same parties who have disclosed a true and regular vein . of high oiuuu mining ore wnicn iney have developed by shafts and opened by a dike for several hundred feet along the surface, and arc taking out good, rich ore the whole length. They are on one of those well defined fissures that can be traced on the surface by the crevice crev-ice iand have rich ore all the way from Lion hill across the caiYm to Chloride hill. TIJ j; MABIIOsA Is being worked' and looks well. It is a good claim. I will not enumerate (be hills were pretty well represented represent-ed with men working mines or doing assessment work: Un Tuesday, like the youth who I bore the banner with tho strange de-I de-I vice- of "'tup elile gallah," that's the : Chinese of it) 1 again went up the j mountain passes, and in jfj.t ihfd circling Dry Canon, and to the tops i of all of them, but didn't stay up there as the said youth with the ban-I ban-I ner aud strange device did. No, sir ! I came down all right, but painful and tired. J neglected to mention that we : hiivc been having many days of rainy weather, and ad a sequel to it have all the mosiiuitos that any Christian man would want even way up to the tops o f the highest peaks, where we sat and admired tbe grandeur of tho scenery and fought- mostjuitos. From these high peaks we can look down upon Salt Lake, Utah Lake and all over several great valleys in fact, i a large portion of I'tah and even over j into Nevada and Idaho. Allow me j to remark that these mosijuitos living so high up on the mountains become high-toned and acquire the tastes and I habits of tho miners. 1 have heard that smoke will drive thorn away. I tried it with, n;y pipe. 1 use long cut -Uatliu's, that 1 buy of Thatcher; I like il so did the mos'iuitos. STKAN'GKBS AND YJSlTOKa. To-day has been quite a gala day in flry Canon, owing to the presence ef .mo many capitalists aud distinguished guests in camp, among whom I will name Colonel Wall, Major Wiggins, L'olonel Downs and a few high privates. priv-ates. Besides these a party, consisting olSelah Chamberlain, John Hutchins and B. F. McOartvffroin Cleveland, 0. Tugs, Marshall, 'Esq., and J. 0 . (vjYIo. Esu.. and John Tiernan. of your city, Col. Robinson, superintendent superinten-dent of the Mono, and the undersigned, under-signed, visited several of the piincipal mines, beginning with the THAU aTEVEXS, Which we found about 140 feet deep, the shaft being surrounded on all sides by ore of a good class and grade. 1 wrote you fully of this a few days ago. I can only say that it is improving, and is belter now than then, and is just a young Mono you heard me 1 We next visited the mono" MINE, (ioiufi down the incline a distance of 600 feet to the botloni works. It is astonishing the amount of wealth found in this mine. L is far ahead of anything the Emma ever was, and after producing to the extent it lias is only juet beginning to be worked, or to show its capacity to produce pro-duce Il is a regular vein, extending extend-ing down a distance of 600 feet, producing pro-ducing rich ore the whulo distance, aud now proving richer and more of it at the extremity of the workc. Six drifts, stakes aud cuts have been run, proving the regularity, regular-ity, strike and continuance of the vein. It is not a deposit nor a series of pockets or bouuazas, but a true vein from top lo bottom, all the way producing the richest ore ever taken from a mine, and showing that but a trilling part has as yet been taken out--a mere flea bite to the vast vul-uiue vul-uiue yet remaining in the vaults upon which to further sink, to drift and stone. It is truly ajwondcrful mine, and yea re will pass before the magnitude magni-tude of it is fully known or appreciated- THE EVENING HTAK Wc next vUil-.d, and descended a depth or distance of over '6jQ feet, following fol-lowing down a regular vein of good ore, nowhere less than eighteen inches in width, with a display in volume ol ore at this depth truly astonishing. as-tonishing. This ore sells for :-185per ton, and specimens assay as high as tXO oz. At the end of this ''Ai) lect incline there is a shall over 100 feet deep, but not being in order wc could not go down. Tin: WASi'EiiiMj -'i.w We next visited, and went down about I'H) feet, following a strong vein 'ufgocdorc. i in. '.n fit hi; .misi; Ha.s a shaft altout loO feet deep, with a bir.i-l ot ore the full sic ot the shaft, and earful ore too. the scurn;ii emu Was the la.-t mine visited. We went down and incline iMo feet, following a strong vein ;dl the way and finding a bigMrikeof it at the lottom. This mine is owu'il by the Adamson Bros, and Thos. K. .Miller, the Jupiter by II. li. Mrody. A. It. Campbell A Co.. and liie Kveniii" Star bv Adamson Brof., Miller IW and '.Marshall Koyle. 'l'osaythat ail these gen- .!emen were favorably impresseil with , this camp and its mines would be1 drawing it very mild indeed. In fact each and all were fnli.-ficd that it will take live yt ars to get tu a lair knowledge of what the mines can do by getting them into shape and condition con-dition to produce as their capacities will warrant. There is no play out here, and no mine has ever '"petered" in this camp. They grow belter and produce more and richer ore the more tlieyj'.re worked, and live years from now people win wonuer that they did not 3ce tbc signs aright in Ophir district. Before closing I will say that Shoo Fly Hill it alive, like an ant hill, with busy men. It is covered with prospects pros-pects and all being worked, among which 1 will here notice the AI M KN MINK, wucd by Chick it Co., of San Frau-eisco, Frau-eisco, which hhows a line vein and a strong one of beautiful rich ore, and has a prospect of being one of the best things on the hill. 1 ought mention men-tion many more, but I am done talking. talk-ing. Srictn. |