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Show 0UK LIFT IE COTTONWOOD I LETTER, Business Dull but Prosjrct- ! Lively. ! The amount of Snow lliat his j Fallen In the Lust 'j Two Winters. What Is being done iu the Mini's. Toe Stiokeer Excitement. Gold Quartz, Alta, April 25, 1871. Editors Herald: The first thing on the programme , from this region is the weather, not because we resido outside the limits , of a respectable and genial clime, but for the reason that Ave are above dwellers in the valley, and therefore receive the benefits of the accumula- ' tions of tho clouds that hover around ( the Wasatch peaks boforo tho inhabitants inhab-itants below ore aware that a storm ia ( coming. During the past week we , have had a remarkably long gleam of sunshine, and had it not been for a ( forcible cold and uncomfortable east ( wind that prevailed during the foro part of tho week, we could now ( chronicle a palpable decrease in the , snow. East winds bring no storms up here, but to-day there is a Btrong west wind setting in that forebodes no gocd, and wo confidently expect another little snowstorm, at all oventa we arc proparcd for one. Some public benefactor, expert, or something else equally as good, has been keeping a gauge, whereby he has measured tho fall of snow during the past two Winters, For the Winter Win-ter of 1S72-3 he gives us seventy-fivo leet; '73-4, up to this time, forty-two feet. That is considerable anow for one season, but it has settled down this Spring to about four feet of the compound on the level. This level hag continued for about three weeks, and unless the weather moderates considerably tho. level will soon increase. in-crease. Business has1 not yet increased perceptibly. per-ceptibly. Tho merchants arc sanguine san-guine and are purchasing large stocks of goods for the season's trade, I It is reported by the employes of j the Flagstaff that a largo and rich; body of ore has been recently rpvealed ; in oue of the levels of the mine. Nothing rellablo can be ascertained1 by your correspondent as to the na-; tureofthe strike. The mine still I continues to ship about forty tons of, ore per day; in fact.it is the only mine that is now shipping ore of any consequence from this camp. The Fuima mine ccuiinuca to, make spasmodic uhipmenis , Tlic emplejx's attend to their own business and seem not to regard the ft-clinge of the public in the least. On an aver-1 aver-1 age about tiirce tons per d iy of high grade ore are sliipptd from the mine. Workmen are busy at the iJaven-, iJaven-, port mine, shoveling the rnow from j the tramway and getting things in order to icoumc work. An inci eased force of men is to bo put on the McKay mine. Ore shipments ship-ments are souu to commence, and developments pushed forward vigor-ously. vigor-ously. j One of our bct mines, tho Oriwly, still remains quiet. No work is being done on it, and no one knows when anything will be dom:. The City ftock mine is looking well. Oro is being extracted d:iiJy and 'm only wailing for good roads and clear skies to be shipped. The Wellington lnwnot yet resumed resum-ed work, but promises to commence when tho owners get ready. Tho Toledo Company arr pushing , wjrk forward on the Fuller mine. Harry Desmond has returned from his eastern trip, and is again in charge of the workd. Tho Wells Fargo mine, situated near , Grizzly Flat, on the iJavonjKjrt Hill, has been developed during the Winter into one of the leading properties of the camp. A tunnel 1 as been run 70 feet. At the end of the tunnel a vertical shaft ' has been hunk on the ledge, showing a vein of ore from five to eight feet in width. There is a quantity of ore on tho dump which will be shipped as soon as possible, i The Stickccn excitement ha rcach-. rcach-. ed our region, and everybody that can ( raise a respectable stake has got tho fever. Last Thursday Abe Cohen, Ed. 1 Little, J. Brewer, and L. Winter bot-i bot-i torn left hero for that cold and inhos-, inhos-, pitabio region. Abe Cohen was well known here as an industrious and capable cap-able uuelioucer.and his Sunday morn-, morn-, ing services will bo sadly missed by the boys. That he and his companions will bo moro successful than tho Cay- enno pilgrims, is tho wish of all Alta- itcs. Our minern are of tho class who . are bound to rush to any excitement, even if it calls them to the antipodes. Mr. Davis assayed some gold quartz i tho other day, said to come from somewhero in this vicinity, that went over $65,000 per ton. "This vicinity" may bo a hundred miles away, and yet wo arc happy in being in possession posses-sion of a small piece of tho quartz. Since tho departure of James Weiglo for California, tho Alta Lyeuom droopcth and tho "Snow Drop'' is without an editor. John T. |