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Show LETTER PROM DRY CANYON. Dry Canon, Dec nd. J7-'t. K-ittvrs lb ,;,!!: Among these interesting hills again that it not .just as the poets uottld have il, but it is just where 1 ami This parlofOphir Hislriethas "min lily" li-ly" aslonishevl Ihe world by he richness rich-ness of its ores; and not alone that they arc rich, but that, the hills they came fruin are big oiks and chuck full of 1 hem. What 111 ine ca n compare with lue Mono'.' lint then ,n,,'t care a cent tor the Mono for I havn't got an inch iu it; and I am not like , the poor 'cusses'' who sometimes (gt to the camp with nary a red iu ; their poekefs, yet always enquire alter such mines as tiie Mono, as if they were sent out to buy an invoice of a few do.cn of them. It is the "splendid prospect" lhat I ' am iu love wilh, and always talking alujuf. If I had money eiiouuli u I buy the .Mono I would not do it, I but would take myself and the tiioucv I lo sonic civil i.cd country and spend il in a suitable way; would live on the I fat of the land, happy and uece-.sar-iiy y.m know the rest. Dry Canon, you know, is a U,ugli place to gel up into, hut it is a world's mint for all that. Let go thy Mono, Chicago, Kearsargc, llkiden Treasure and 11 few othersof those NoJ mines, and there is yel a world of wealth! Let me shoot at a lew of the lupies ol the iniiicrs of Ihe camp and say a words, about the "coming mines." The I "tah ','ueen, Cadot, Miami tVeun Ouccn, Shoo Fly, At tun, and Mi acre I IS imt, arc all old iiijnc.s of worth and standing, on which recent development h.Ls been doing much to prove Ih. il they are ol great alue. Their ores arc ail rich, and quantifies quanti-fies have been shipped from them. Ihc Aabob, Kip Van Winkle, and the fool hill imntv, hae had their day, once upon a time, since which they have subsided to a truly jural (you can't speak those two words dis tinctly and stand ouGide of three cot'k-fail.-i condition. N'ow, to-day, we have in-w lliing-, for J as-sure you the minus of Dry Canon were net all diseoveml by Connor's Con-nor's soldiers, nor by the lo-t ' n ibe of I Mill and 70. 'I'he at,.-.( U,iMj, (,f (rue nierif, is U,e I N , ,r h(M.(.j. mens of ore from which I was' .shown yesterday. Iliat I will bef my hat hand, lull assay sunn h, .silver and over forty per cent, lead; and ihev s:iy (" Tin v say" iicm;,- li,-,, hltr U luislal.en.) (hey ha.- a wide win of it at a depth ofVl.vly feel, all of uliii h is "bully for Ihe boys." This mine dsn as-oit ,,ut some line milling ore, jf very hieii grade, the same as Mono jv Xearsai'-'e do. Then there is the Ml. Savage lode, a recent dcvelopment.that yields only free milling ore; but it is rich, and Fields, one of the owners, says there is plenty of il, say a three to four fool vein. A little of this kind of ore will go a great way Inwards buying the cliild a fruckffor it is of that valuable kind that the boys used to call the " blue ide and green ide ol i-ilver." Since then smart men have been amund, and have taught the boys to 'call it chloride, glace, cmMite, and such other outlandish names. But then the boys don't care for the name, if it will only assay two or three hundred hund-red dollars to the ton. The Dexter is another good thing of the latter-day discoveries. It is almost high enough wp on the mountain moun-tain side io enable a fellow with long ears to hear the Angel choir singing their psalms. But then, it is like very many other extremely good things they are hung so high up that" but lew of us will gel any of them. Salvation for instance,. is on 1 the wrong grade for most o I u-: if it was to be obtained by going down the gulch, many a poor fellow would have been saved who now has no more chance than Major Maxwell of getting his seat in Congress. But lam getting oil' my subject, which is mines. 'I'm return to Dry Canon; there is the Battler well named a rattling, nail-driving, good show for a big pile to the owners, whoever they may be. You see, 1 do not wish to Halter men who have claims to puff up one pull' for the claim and two pulls for tho "'gentlemanly "'gentle-manly owners." I don't care who owns tho mines, nor whether they like "Siiicer" or not, it is all the same to mo. 'Then there is the Seneca Falls lode, which by recent work proves lo be a rich one. Il is rich in free milling mill-ing ore, W.i.l 1-Hl line, and yields five pecks of il to the bushel of ore. Skipping all jokes, it is 11 true vein of tine milling ore, of great richness.and there is plenty of it. The Federal Chief is a new discovery discov-ery Ihnl promises well. The oro looks rich, and the vein looks wide and deep. If it holds out so a great while the owner will come to Salt Like and marrv and settle down. i The Ida, the Ida Ldna, the Ira (nut'lufol" old claim! and and now, then,! have forgotten the names of at least a do.en new mines, the owners of which will all go where they ran live in hruwn stone fronld when they sell their mines for half what tiny are worth. As my memory iu getting weak on mines, I will close until 1 can refresh. Siie'LIl. |