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Show TO FRISCO. Tlie Trip of Saperintendent Jolm Siarr; to the Country of the Horn Silver Mine. How You Get There, What You See There, and How You Get Away From There. Salt Lake City, September 22t 1S79. Editors Herald: Tho 15th ioet. was a very interesting interest-ing day to the contractors and gmdeiB on the Utah Southern Railroad Ex- 1 tension. It was pBy day. The pay car waa attached to the regular train thut Btarts at 7 a.m. to Juab, trie tvi-micius tvi-micius of the U:ah Scuthern Railroad. Rail-road. On the arrival of that train ut Nephi, a bui car and a fin wad added ad-ded to the train. This contaioed a good team and a light rig belouging to Mr. Henry Goldabrougb, of that! town, who had been engaged to take Superintendent John Sharp and Surveyor Sur-veyor JesBe W. Fox to Friaco. Your correspondent was interested, havicg bad an invitation to take a rest and eee Frisco. We arrived at Juab on time. The pay car was an object of interest, and money changed haude very rapidly. Ihis accomplished, we moved on to the end of the track, some forty miles, and arrived there about dark. At tliis point, a team and light wagon awaited us to convey con-vey our picnic, bedding, and feed for the animals, as we were going out on the deaert. We drove five milea, and then we arrived at the eurveyor'ei camp, where we aupped anil camped for the night. An early riae tee next morning and a good breakfast at Mr. Lyman Hudson's camp ana a drive of twelve miles brought ua to Deseret. We called at the new camp ot the surveyors, and then drove to California Califor-nia ranch, thirteen miles more. Here there is a well and a pump worked by a wind miil. The country all around ia dry; no feed forelock, and the deserted ranch looked like eoe of the places that had been. The next morning we bad an early tise aud an early aiart, drove eighteen miles to "GeorEe'n Ranch," another deeerted p uce, and ail dried up. Here was another well and another windmill, and a place where a pump hid once been. We did not neon cere but pressed on to a better place tor water, called Coyote Springs, five miles further eoutb. Here we nooned and diacusaed the tender chickens that had certainly been cooked by an artiste in that line. Having refreshed ourselves and teams we continued onr journey. Seven milea further brought us to Black Rock Springs. From there we drove to Riverside, eight miles. We had driven BOmewbat out of our way, viewing the country around, Superintendent Sharp wishing to get ! an understanding of the country and the best and most profitable tor a location. Tne sun went down and the stars peeped out, we were traveling travel-ing away from water along the bottoms bot-toms but the irrepressible Golds -brough assured ua he was on the line to "Smith's." The loud barking of dogB apprised us we were near to a habitation, and the ' Good evening, Mr. Smith," "Good evening, Mr. Goldebrougb," assured ua we were at 'Smith's ranch." Mr. SniitD, the proprietor of thi3 ranch, was away, ; but hia eon, & fine sturdy young gentleman, gen-tleman, did the honors. We were shown into the cosiest of little parlora, carpeted and furnished with taste and mm fort. An earlv rise the next morning, and a drive before breakfaat, ;ix miles, brought ns to Lamoraeux', where we took breakfaat and obtained a fresh team, then drove to Friao) fourteen miieB. Here we drove to the International. We visited tho Horn Silver Mining Company's store and met our old friend Captain Richard Hopkins. He accompanied ua to the furnaces, where we where shown the operation of converting the raw material into bullion. We met with Mr. Morso, the business manager of the Horn Silver Mining Company, aud other gentlemen connected with the eime. We saw eighty car loads of bullion awaiting transportation. Only think of it. Eight hundred tons ! and the furnaces turning out Ironi eight to ten lone per day. We visited Mr. Godbe's works and met with Mr. Ben Hampton, who kindly showed ua over the works. They were not running, run-ning, haviDg just shut down for Btock: taking. We were shown the furnace that had steadily turned out, when running, ten tons per day. Wo : visited the cnarcoal kilns, five in ! number. There was a tram road from the kilns to the furnace, where they could run on a truck from twenty to twenty-live bushels of charcoal at a time. From this eminence we could see the wonderful miue, the town and itsaurrouudines. Improve ment seemed to be the order of the day. A ce roc& building for the International Hote), and a brick building for the poatoffice, are in the coureof erection; also another store for the company. We had a most agreeable visit; regretted re-gretted not having time to view that mine, but then it was a location for the Utah Southern Railroad Extension Exten-sion that waa the object of thia visit. Having Been all that was needed we returned. Just outside the town was the race courBf, with i;a judges' and grand aland. Two hours' ride we were at "Lamoreaux'," Eup ped, and returned to friend Smith's. Ihe next day we drove to Califirnia ranch. During the night the coyotes made musio for us. The country is pretty badly dried up, Where 100 tons of hay have been cut they do not cut one. Hay will be high this season. Saturday we drove to the surveyor's camp for breakfaat, and struck the cars at ihe end ot the track about 2 o'clock, i Okie 5 all about a color. The roads v ere cut up badly, and the dust -ell it cannot be well expressed. It r.Ttftiuly waa a change rather an Agreeable one to get seated in a car and have the locomotive draw Golds-biouKu'srie. Golds-biouKu'srie. We dined on the construction con-struction train, enjoying the hospi-Uliiv hospi-Uliiv of Mr. Watson and his ercel-U ercel-U ut'lady. Then eff to the city, feel-i;.g feel-i;.g we knew ail about miniug, railroading locating hnea in particu-'dr, particu-'dr, for all of which we are inJebtej o Hip courtesy of Superintendent John Snarp T. |