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Show j Alfa Mining Outlook. I Mr. Wm, E. Hall, superintendent of the Antelope and Prince of Waloa, ! Big Cottonwood district, was down from Alta yesterday. His report of business in that elevated camp is an ordinary one, but he spoke hopefully of an immediate awakening in mining and trading both in Little and Big Cottonwood canons. The warm weather of the past fortnieM has melted the enowi, and mud and sluih ic the thoroughfares through which miners aud ore haulers move are deep I and unpleasant for out door opera- tions. Nevertheless, large shipments of mineral are being made and in a very short time the season will be fairly open. Thousands of tons of valuable ore are in the ore houses and on the dumps of the large mines of both districts, awaiting good roads in order to commence shipping, aud when once tbe property owners do begin, railroads, samplers, assay ers, smelters and mills will be supplied to their full capacity, and the laboring men's harvest of remunerative employment em-ployment will have arrived. This source of work and profit, during the spring, summer and fall months, is looked forward to by all classes as one that will materially aid in the inauguration in-auguration of ibe good times that have been slothful and backward. The means, or capital, derived from the taking out, handling and marketing market-ing of the ores and precious metals, will be freely circulated and scarcity of money and hard times will become realities of the past. The merchants who furnish the supplies, as well as the consumera, will be mutually benefitted ben-efitted by an increased out-put from the bonanzas of which the mouD tains are full. The rcturna are bound to increase confidence in Utah's mining resources, and an influx of capitalists who will invest and make further developments will certainly follow. And the mines of tbe Cottonwoods are but ft small proportion of the wealth-yielding area of the territory. Parley's Park, the districts in the Oquirrh range, the mining region of the south in which are included Leeda, Frisco and Silver Reef, will furnish their quota of bullion and materially further Secretary Sherman's Sher-man's Bcheme for resumption. |