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Show j SILVER REEF. The Immense Wealtn of the Camp. Big Dividends for Capital Well Directed. Silver Reet, Utah, October 13, 1S79. Editors Herald: " There was never was bo great a dearth of local news or items of interest in thia camp since its founding, found-ing, as at the present moment The mines are looking and yielding splendidly, never more so; large bodies of ore in Bight in most of the mines that have been proepected. Plenty of mioesjust as good or better, lie unworked. The mills that are running are paying princely dividends, divi-dends, and yet tbe car lags, business is extremely dull, and why? Capital ia needed, and men seeking employment, employ-ment, wou'd, if well managed, pay capital 100 per cent profit on every dollar Bpent, as tbe facts have proven in the case of the two mills now run-ing. run-ing. Tnere is without doubt enough working ore here to keep the maobinery now at work, going 100 years. In moat cases tbe mines have ebown increased value as tbey have been prospected, and in the case of Col. Wall's mine, which has been pushed to greater depth than any before, a large body of rioh ore has been reached, and experts Bay it is the most valuable find ever made in this camp. It only requires that capitalists capital-ists see and understand the situation here, and what immense profits have been made by companies who have discreetly managed their business. BriDg abundance of means, open ! minee build raiila of large capacity, workTCe milliooBol tons of low-grade ores at a profit, and Bet everybody to work. There is scarce a caroD on tbe Pacific coast where attending surroundings sur-roundings are as favorable ia working mines as here. First, the camp is in the midst of an inhabited agricultural agricul-tural district; surrounded with every variety of produce, which makes an easy, cheap and regular market, approachable at all seasons of the year. Second, the mildness of climate gives 365 dayB in the year, good working weather, without snow or Btorma to hinder. Third, the character of the ore is bo soft that one stamp ia reckoned to crush three or four times tbe amount of oreB aa at Pioche and other districts; and finally, located on a main thoroughfare, the region ia full of teams and skilled help, o! every sort. What hinders progress? Nothing but capital. J. Indian Movements. Lieutenant Patterson, quartermaster quartermas-ter at Fort Douglas, stated, yesterday, that it was now definitely settled that the troopa were in for a winter'a campaign. cam-paign. It is easier to chase Indiana in winter than in summer, because they cannot travel so well, while the troopa can get about as rapidly bb they desire. Tbe determination is to prosecute the chase until every Red guilty of being connected with the massacre at and near the White River Agenoy had been captured. A cantonment will be established either at or in the neighborhood of the White River Agency, whence tbe troops will go out in aearoh of the murder-ing murder-ing Utes. Quartermaster Patterson has sent to the men in the Fourteenth regiment 250 Arctics and a number of tbe oomcai stoves usea oy soiaiers when traveling, and every prepartion for tho campaign is making. There is no expectation of any more troops beiDg oalled from Fort Douglas, as there are now plenty in the field. Regarding the outbreak in New Mexico, Lieutenant Patterson is of tbe opinion that there are plenty of I troops in that vicinity to deal with the outlaws thereabouts. |