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Show San Juan Mines. We have been permitted to see a private letter from a Salt Laker who went to the San Juan mines two or three monthsago. He has returned to Georgetown, Colorndo, where he purposes s ending the Winter. At San Juan, he says, the snoy uj as bad as at Little Ooltonwood, rendering render-ing it impossible to do any prospecting, prospect-ing, or other work. The Little Ciant mine is the only one that has dune anything yet. All operations have been suspended until next Spring. In May it is expected that work will cotu-r.ieiice cotu-r.ieiice again. 'Ihc ore is all base, and several mnip.uus have been formed to put up smelters next season. sea-son. The mines arc located on the Lops of the i mum Luiis and aU.ivc timber-line, u Unit they can be opor-aU-d on but a few months in the year. The report circu!atil by Denver papers that there wire rich pi'u-rr mines in the San Juan district, dis-trict, is contradicted by thi? correspondent, wiio says that no 1 placer digiiv,:.-, have yet i-ecn ttnu k. 1 Next season will probably definitely settle the character of the mines of tiiis region. At present nearly all i; rumor, and much of lh;; U unreliable -nd exaggerated. There seems to be no d.ilt that S.in Juan will show nie rkh deposits, depos-its, but there is .v- yet no certainty as to what it will d.-. "Distance lends encha-jLnient." rrobaV.y Utah can diaccur.t tl.ai n.rv ecn r.uv, but men arc hott i-cr.tent unices cha--i:. : scn-.e ;. -.--. and the San Jaan j "W;il o' the W.,p" nuL-t :iev,is U tiu-ri-Hit'iiy t-.-(--!. |