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Show IDAHO. Th ti Ox fu rd M i ii oh a M y I h . A School Wautrd in that Couii- j '?' j Oxtlil, Sept. , lS7o. ' K',lit.r.i thrall: I You havu perhaps seen in some of the papers lately a paragraph relating relat-ing to Ox ford mine.-. No such mine-) 'as represented in theto papers havo j any exinleuee in this quarter. It is truo that we had u pair of bilks hero I w h n ied to deceive the. public with i laUe representations and forged as-! as-! nays, and also endeavored to make us 1 believe that the ore assays from to $00 per ton, but when the proper assay was obtained it was orny Sl.lo per ton , Tim asssrtions ot the miners as to losing horses and hying equipped lor a protracted prospecting pros-pecting lour, and so on, were all bosh. That there are indications of mines here there can bo no doubt, but it will take money and muscle to develop them, and our two friends could not or would not apply either. I am sorry to say that wo have no day school hero. The trustee who wern j noinfrd without ronarnt i of the people are doing nothing towards to-wards starting a school, although the I legislature has appropriated $-i0 tor j that pur pose. ' Indians have beeu quite numerous ' hrre of late, and you may be aur- prised to bear that our scalps are in their proper place and our horses 'and cattle quietly feeding on the J range. Your valuable paper comes j regularly and is eargerly sought after. 1 Ho0lA)UlT. |