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Show Sold. Yesterday the two-story frame house No. 52 Conimercial street, was sold at auction for $571. It isone ol the first houses, erected ou tiat street, OUR LUXLE COTTONWOOD LETTER. j Spring Approaching and Snow I Disappearing. JSiulug Review Summer Prospects. Lawsuit oyer the San Francisco Claim. Alta, April 11, 1S7-1. Editors tkrald; Spring is coming on with rapid strides. Wo still have snow enough lor s'eighing,but it is growing "small by degrees and beautifully less." Lust night the wind came howling fiercely up the canon and it is confidently con-fidently expected by the "oldest in-habitanf'that in-habitanf'that we aro to have an'April snow storm. Unless this proves an exception to the general rule we shall not be disappointed in receiving several sev-eral sueh favors before the first of June. Business of all kinds is improving in the camp and merchants and others oth-ers prophecy the most successful and pnpcrous season that Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood has ever known. The mines that have been worked during tho last Winter have ail inn- . proved in appearance. A number of I rich strikes have been made and re-. re-. ported, and none of them, so far as your correspondent is informed, has distance of 150 feet. In the face of this drift there is a body of ore five fet-t in width. There was a recent shipment of fifty tons ot ore from this, mine. There is about seventy tons of ore on the dump, which will be shipped as soon as possible. A tramway is projee ed to run from the' mine aud connect with the Savage tramway. A horse whim is also to be put up immediately. This property prop-erty now bears a reputation second to none in the camp. The Stoker mine, located on tho same mineral belt, and a few hundred hun-dred yirds to the east of the McKay, has been worked all Winter and the owners of this property are now about to realize something tangible for their labor. The work lias been under the management of James E. Ma! hews. It is developed by 'an incline 210 feet in depth, at the loot of which a vertical ver-tical shaft has bcL'ii Bunk a distance of eighiy-iour feet, XA drift has also been run twelve feet northeast. The width of the vein is not known, the sides, top and bottom of the level being of ore. The ore is soft carbonates carbon-ates and easily worked. There are about 100 tons on tbe duinp, part of itsacked. ready fur shipment. The City Rock Company havo shipped about fifty tons of ore during the past two weeks. This property is looking better than ever, and the shipments will undoubtedly bo largo during the coining season. The Davenport mine still remains under the fostering care of the keepers, keep-ers, of whom there are three. There aro so many wild reports about this property that the Altaitcs give no credence to any of them. Greenbacks arc the only things that will ever relieve re-lieve this property. The Fuller mine, located qii the quartzite hill to the west ot tbe Flagstaff, have continued work all Winter with profitable results, as is evident from 120 tops qf oro now on the dump, and ready for shipment, as soun as the weather permits. The Incline on this mine is 2'JO feet deep. A level is being run east 270 feet from the mouth of the incline. The face ol tbe drift shows a vein full three in width. There is eiill a large amount of ore in the cave, but will not bo removed until the horse whim, shortly to be built, is completed. com-pleted. This mine is owned in Toledo, To-ledo, Ohio, and is o;io of the noat prominent and valuable properties in, the distric t. There are a number of mines and prospects on Peruvian Hill which have been worked all Winter, and in 'most of them large bodies of ore have been revealed. This hill will furnish a large amount of oro this Summer. ' Our neighbors on the other side of the divide, in Big Cottonwood, have not been idle during the Winter. Their success is a matter of pride to the Altaites, as the merchants of Alta furnish them a large portion of their supplies. The Reed & Benson are shipping five tons of ore per day, and havo been doing this and more during the Winter. Wint-er. Most of tho work done on the mine at present is not for tho purpose of extracting aro but for placing the mine in the beet possible condition for next season's work, Tho Prince pf Wales, have been shipping most of the Winter, part of the time down Littlo Cottonwood Ciifion, but latterly down Big Cottonwood. Cot-tonwood. They are now shipping about eight tons per day. The Wellington company, ju the same- canon, are shipping about five tons per day of first-class oro, and are preparing to make a good shipping record this season. Several other mines in Big Cottonwood havo been shipping thisWinter, hut your coi respondent res-pondent could uot obtain tho amountrf. The shipments of high grade ores from tho Cottonwoods this season will outstrip any district in tbe Territory. Ter-ritory. We have had several distinguished arrivals during tbe last two days. Le-gal Le-gal talent has been imported from Salt Lake by Dan Simmons and D. Harmon. Harmon claimed the San Francisco location, in Big Cottonwood, Cotton-wood, undox a former location known as the Wild Welchman,' 1,000' has been expended on the ground by Simmons Sim-mons and others, and he does not pro pose to have it "jumped." The case, which was argued before Justice Mills, was given to tho jury at 10 o'clock last night, and they brought in averdicl for Simmons. The Gladiator Tunnel is going to resume operations immediately under tho management o$ W. Si Wood hull, who is here to let contracts on tho Tunnel. This property is desirably situated and is looked upon as one of (he mast valuable tunnel sites iu Cot ton wood. It has been already developed devel-oped to ft distance ol 500 feel,. " " John T. |