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Show I 0UK I'RY CAXON LETTER. The Buckhorn. Bath. Grey Rock, Yelucipede, Silver Sliieid and Other Kices. Tlie t 11 i e t O ; Ii i r I- a m i 1 y (Co roi.cndcLce of tie lirtii i .1 Dry CaSux, Oct. 2iJ-.li, '74. On last Sunday I turned the toes of my No. 0's in the direction of Ophir city, and brought up at the BL'CKHOU-V MISE, owned by the Buckhorn SJ.ver Mining Company, incorpora'ed. Tnis mine astonished me, familiar as I have been with the camp. The vein is tracab!e on the surlace for a di.-ti.fnec of al-out , 410 feet; and in my opinion embraces: the Bath aud McCuUum mines. It is; -developed at present by an incline 320 feet in depth, showing a strong chimney or pipe of ore in the present face, but lately Mr. Bath, the present superintendent, discovered t:iat he had been working unlerneath his ore body, and after several days spent in making explyralions he opened out a body ot fine looking carbonate and galena ores, mixed with yellow ochre at least FITTEES FET 'IUICK, and extending to the right and left indefinitely. At .this time Mr. Buthj was assisted by only one man, and in one week these two extracted, sacked, ! and prepared fcr market 1.100 sacks! of ore. True it is low grade, samp-; Hng i-bout forty ounces in silver per' ton, and carry ins about tJO per cent, j of lead. Tins mine, in conjunction ' with the BATH MINE, was located July 10th, 1870, and considering con-sidering the show for a remarkably rich mine, has been worked with less vigor than any prospect which I have seen of one-third its value, although some of the present owners are rated as heavy gui.s in your city, so far as ducats are concerned. 1 THE GKE RCCK. ) owned by Col. Kelly Co., I could not interview, owing to the fact that the Col. was not present; but, from1 surface indications, and the amount of improvements being made, I. should iudie that it was a very gcod! thing to have-, and from what I could learn of its pa-t history it is Unind to rate A No. 1 in the future. The last , two mines above mentioned are trie only ones that I could see that showed show-ed any signs of life. j THE ESULISII GROL'P, consisting of the Velocipede Xo. 1 and No. 2, and the Silver Shield, con-' taining immensp Imdii-s of the best qualuy of smelling ores, are lying idle, aud every miner in camp is unanimous in saying that the con- tinued inactivity ot this company has a depressing influence on the balance of the mining enterprises. The only reason given by outsiders for this ma nouvering is that the GL'.CIAL PERIOD has not ended yet. Returning again to the summit of Hidden Treasure-Hill, Treasure-Hill, I gazed king and anxiously down upon Ophir City, seeking lor some sign of lif, but so far as the sight of any living being inifs streets was con- j cerned, J might just as well have look-: ed down upen desolation itself. It, was quite a relief when I turned and looked at the never ceasing buckets of the Chicago tramway, constantly moving up and down freighted with their wealth of ore, and the constant bustle and turmoil about the ore1 houses aud various inclines of the I HIDDEN TKEASUKE. The company owning thi3 magni- ficent property have for sometime j past been engaged- in running a tun-1 net from the north face of the moun-1 taiu lor the purpose of tapping their j ore body and thereby enaming them: to bring their ore to the surfaceabout ' half way down the mountain. ThV tunnel has been completed so far as : to intersect with the most northerly ) shaft, hut I learn from the Superintendent Superin-tendent that the company contemplate contem-plate continuing the work until they cross the line of their other workings. They have also laid out and completed com-pleted ! A NEW ROAD, Having for its initial point their tunnel tun-nel mouth, and running with an easy i grade along the mountain side, crossing cross-ing Slion Viy Hill about three hundred feet below the famous Kears-arge i mine, and intersecting M. T. dishorn dis-horn 's grade at the site of MONO cn". Yes; hut don't allow the news to startle you. We have actually got two cities in Dry Canon. True, the last fledgling is small, hut, who knows, it may yet rival the burgh on the Bear consisting of two houses, (log) one tent and a brush wickeup. The last named palatial residence was abandoned during the late storm, so I presume it doesn't count for much. This burgh was surveyed and the boundary lines run with commendable com-mendable regard to the economy of space, and every resident can possess a corner Jot ot lus own. I could not learn the names of the projectors, but il they could secure the service! of two or three good stout curbstone blowers that I wot of in your city, they might make a euccuss of the I enterprise. THE UQXO MINE Has fiir some inexplicable reason suspended sus-pended oper.it ons, theieiort i. for a short time. It it not for lack of ore, I am assured liy the in. n who have been working iu tiie mine, and as the owners are not pre tut, and the superintendent is a close-mouthed feilow wiio knows how to keep his own cmmsel, the reason of the suspension will probably never be known until tlie time when all things hiildtn are revealed. THE DMi'Ori.V . and Diamond Cross have also Bhut down for tlie winter season. When the inclement weather is past and gone and vernal spring has come w ith its renovating mtluences, the company owning these boles in the grout. d propose to recommence i operations with renewed vigor and purses. The light air or some other external influence in this camp has a mot baleful effect on the relations existing between MAS AND wire, or those that should be such. Several srpar.uioiis of marital ties have occurred oc-curred within the past fortnight, in one instance the vamosing female j having taken up her abi nie at tne ! hotel in the cap:w;ty of hash sliner. j H--r eister endeavored tr herd her 'down the canon with a club, hoping j thereby to restore peace and quietness quiet-ness to her brother-in-law's firc-siiie, but the wife wouldn't oe ber.led in Ithat way, and made things hot lor the 'peace rv-i'rir; and to day TME FEMALE HALT I of what had been one, but is now equal to half a dozen, in the absence of her former lord and master, with : the aid of an axe demolished thedwr I of his cabin and created great havoc ' and destruction among his household , goods. Pu s Ultra. |