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Show GUR BIG COTTONWOOD LETTER Tha Ore Shipments Business Be-comirg Be-comirg Activs. iL'.'EK Si :.:n-. lembcr 1, Ir74. K.u!,r, lAri : The Antelope aid Prince uf Wales are shipping upon an average from eight to ten tons r-.r day; ad high grade ore. The Wellington :s tupping about the same amount daily with a large quantity on the dump ready !cr shipment; ship-ment; ail high grade. The Richmond is net shipping quite so much but has, 1 am inf ruled, rul-ed, quite a body ot g-xd ore in sight and will increas; shipments in a lew days. The Copper Company arc shipping a few tons daily. Tneir ore at first w;is low grade, but increases in value as it goes down. The vein is betnc more tiiroughly propecud. It is situated sit-uated but a short distance from the above named mines, but has cot been developed equal to the others near it. Tue ores average Gtj ozs. silver per ion. I have contended from the time locations were made in this district, that with cue half the capital expended in this that has been spent iu Little Ccttonwcod district, dis-trict, we would discount them in the shipment of ores as much as we out- i rank them in the grade of mineral. j The Little Prod has quite a body of low grade ore. It is owned by a San Francisco company and superintended superintend-ed by W. E. Wallace, Kq. The Dolly Vardeii Company are shipping upon an average about ten tons daily. The ore is ot a lowgrade, but useful for dux. It carries some silver, but how niuch I am not at present aware. There are quite a number of first-class first-class prospects being worked on a small scale, which is perhaps owing to some of the owners not "coming up with the cash." It is a pity that capitalists do not get hold of some of these prospects and develop more such mines as the Antelope, Wellington, Welling-ton, etc. Camp Douglas is getting its supply of wood from here. There are at present seventeen teams hauling on Mr. E. McLaughlin's contract. If things go on at tnis rate much longer it will be almost unpo.sible for teams to got up or down the canon. Wc ahall certainly soon require a narrow gauge railroad. Jlvtinius. |