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Show J '; BINGHAM. - Snow Gold. February, '23rd. Splendid bleihing out here, "booti-ful;" "booti-ful;" if any fault atall could be found with it, it would be because the snow is a little too deop. It storms to-day, an old fashioned Bnow storm that seems to have but one end to it, and that ip the beginning. Yet for all the severity of the storm, the load up the canon is lined with teams hauling down ore to the railroad, and these teams come in companies of from three to ten at a time. It looliB business busi-ness like to see the ore pouring dotfn through such weather ! Having business up on the hills I ventured out through the storm, went to Spanish Hill and thence up on the hill wost of Bear Gulch. The Bnow was splended beautiful, so ft and line; as nice an article of snow as I ever saw in my life; but, the wind was abominable, blinding us at times. The snow on this hill was about six feet deep in places, more or less, and nearly all the time too deep for my short legs to striko bottom, so I traveled tra-veled up the hill over and through the Bnow with a gait that was a cross between swimming and climbing something like a toad swimming in a muu puduie, and something like an joppossum climbing a limb. It was ; comical and amusing to see us go ; 1 that is, to any one who was not doing the traveling. Coming down hill was very much easier. My gait then was like the beaver on his water-slide; only they go head foremost, while I went feet firet, except when I struck an obstacle, and then I reversed position. Hearing much of the discovery of gold mine, in Bingham, I took this opportunity to examine into it and see the mines which are on this hill; so I slid down to the dump, being the Srtul Lode and Richmond Tunnel, but found no one at work, and both shaft and tunnel filled with snow, and snow ten feet deep above them. I could only examine the dirt of the dumps, which I fuund to be an ochraccous earth, composed of decomposed iron, pyrites, galena and quartz. This decomposed de-composed mass contained the gold. Above these mines are quartzite, cropping witn generally quartme formation in which are mines like the Kentuck, Eagle Bird, Krench Spy, Rising Sun, and otners, all of which always contain gold. In the gulch below be-low are good placers, and gold has been found in all the sands of the low ground. It is therefore quite reaon-iiiMe reaon-iiiMe ti ) expect that this quartzite formation, form-ation, and especially the iron pyrites, should contain gold. That it does is the unqualified opiuion that I express, and that ttierc must be some ' paying mines of gold bearing ore in this vicinity. vi-cinity. The ores here are all of the ochraceous kind, being an oxidation of galena and iron pyrites, which are usually calied by the miners, carbonates. carbo-nates. Of course they contain at times lumps of giilena and orneite, both mixed with iron pyriU-s. The oxidation oxida-tion of these ores lreee the gold so thut it can be caught by' the p in test and shown that it is there in quantity. I did not pan out any ot i, but others did, who do not knovy how to tell a lie, more especially on the an niversary of tl. W.'a birthday, and they told ou their hQiior, Ct0.t that they panned out 60cte to a pan yes, 65cta, which, you know, is as rich as cream a foot thick; and that this gold is found in a streak that p;tsses through the body of ore in those two mines, but that there is not yet development de-velopment to prove whiit it will cven-tuallvamounMo. cven-tuallvamounMo. Jf the mines in this part of Bingham will carry gold in shch quantities, it will be a great thing for the camp; by nhiking these or us valuable val-uable for this noble metal. Before closing I must add that an Anniversary Ball was bad last night, atlendtd by thirty -three couple a gay and festive time pplendid. The supper was at the Griffith Hotel, where they did the honors more than well a magnificent supper worthy of a praise. gpiqnt,--- |