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Show ! ilinins Xufes. j A!ta is represented as b-isg duller io-day tLan it has ever been before, j The surface water dues not now 'greatly binder the prosecution of i work, but the real trouble seems to be in the fact that the mines in themselves them-selves are not looking well. Such properties as have been noted (or their regularity of production are now doing little 0.- nothing, and wme that have Bhipped almost constantly for years, have been compelled to shut down altogether. li.;s aUo is the case with Big C fonwood mines. where everj thiog is practically dead, at least for the present. j With regard to Bingham, the I same comment, with cne excep- J tion, may be said to hold good. The, exception ie the Stewart gold mining ' property, and the claims in its immediate imme-diate vicinity. A thoroughly practical practi-cal miner states that there is an immense im-mense amount of wealth lying there, which would make all tbe interested parties rich if they would not waste it in law suits. Outside of thia locality, however, scarcely anything is doing. In truth the mining outlook is anything any-thing but enceuraging, and were it not tor the belief that thia is one of our periodical depresaion?, it might have a didheartening eSect. |