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Show LETTER FROM BINGHAM. Oh! the Mud, the Juicy Mud! The tinlena flEiaet uud IIacr t OifigiiiCH. t Lots of Money in Prospective., i j Bingham, April 21, Were it not for the abominable state of the roads and the horrible Iweathcr of this misty and btormy month of April, your correspondent could chronicle some lively business I items in regard to this argentiferous region. This has really been a more severe- month on our mining enterprises enter-prises and the business of our mer- canlilc men than any previous one during the Winter. Yesterday was the first time in ten days that teams even made the attempt to go up the canon. Thero have been several , wagons stuck in the road, barring all ;progres8 until yesterday, when they were removed. The mud holes m the canon are of unfathomable depths, The mines have bad to suspend sus-pend the shipment of ores, and if the present weather continues no ores of any consequence can be shipped this month. The snow melts in the road about as fast as it falls, and when the sun dares to come out it thaws the accumulations eo rapidly on the hill sides that it causes innumerable innume-rable little torrents to rush across the road, making deep gullies, and rendering rend-ering it more impassable, if possible, then during the storms There are a great number or mines working, and new prospects are being commenced on every day. The developments de-velopments of our district this season will far outstrip any other year's work that has been iloue in the camp. A great many bonded properties are being worked with success, but owing to the backwardness of the season a number of them will havo to obtain an extension of time, a courtesy that most of our miners are willing to iu cord, as the promoters of mining Bchemes, like express companies and public carriers, aro not liable for anything any-thing brought about by the King's enemies, or acts of Providence. Thousands Thou-sands of tons of ore are on the dump3 of the dillerent mines, awaiting shipment, ship-ment, and hundreds of tons per d-iy nrc being extracted. Work is being pushed forward in the face of many I obstacles, but still the people of Bingham Bing-ham are happy and sanguine. The Utah Concentrating Works, that have just been completed at a ' cost of $170,000, have commenced working, but with what success is not yet known. They are the most extensive ex-tensive and costly works of tho kind ever erected in this Territory, and if successful which we have every assurance as-surance they will be will create a revolution as to the modus operandi 'of manipulating galena and carbon-late carbon-late ores. A number of our miners have been engaged this past Winter not past yet, however ip digging drain ditches and preparing their placer claims for work during the bummer. John Aula & Co. have started their Blucies and made their firtt clean up last week about five ounces. This promises prom-ises to be one of the most successful of Bingham's industries. The .Winamuck Smelter is running run-ning one stack. This mine is in a prosperous condition, and will turn out plenty of bullion this season. Oneaty mine, located tt the head nf Bear Gulch, has lately struck a liine body of galena and carbonate .ores from three to four feet in width; fix. men are employed in the mine. I Work on the shaft has been discontinued discon-tinued for the present, and tho whole ! force is employed on the tunnel, ' which hasireached a lengtliof SMQ fcef. There are about slxly tons, pf ore on (he dump; nfty tons haye Deen shipped realizing sixty-five ounces in silver and forty-five per cent. lead. This is high grade ore for Bingham. The mine is one of the very best properties so far as developed iu the camp. The Dixou House, one qf our favorite hotels, has closed the proprietor, propri-etor, 'R. D. Clark", turning his attention at-tention entirely tomining enterprises, lie has the richest copper mine in the district. Ho is now erecting a j jigger at the mine to concentrate the ore which it is expected will be shipped ship-ped to Baltimore. 'JJhe character of the ore is black oxides of copper. The ledge is pronounced by Prof. Clayton to be a shale bed vein. ' For further i information apply to some work on geology. The Griffin House is now the bon ton house of our city. The landlord is genial and hospitable and attends to the wants of his guests with alacrity and cheerfulness only exceeded exceed-ed by the amiability of his w. J.ust as nytun as tho weather will permit and the walking gets good your correspondent intends making a visit to Salt L:ikc. Stasia |