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Show ! LINCOLN DISTRICT. "One Spicer" has got a Good Thing iu that He has Pocketed the District. Dis-trict. A Healthy Report which Facts are Verifying. (Special Correspondence of the LTi:bald.) Lincoln Mining District, March 8th, 1S75. I havo been too much engagod since my last to think of anything except ex-cept the business on hand. I have now got matters in shape so as to al low mo a breathing spell. I hope friends will not think me egotistical if in this letter I speak much of myself, because I intend in this to write only of Lincoln district, of which Httlo can be said without making frequent mention of that "One Spicer." Those who know me and have read my letters let-ters will bear me out when I say that heretofore I have said in my letters but little of myself or my claim or properly. Xowit is so, that to write about this district I must write about myself, because there ia very little here to apeak of outsido of "One Spicer." On the first day of January last, when I commenced operations here, thcro wero but two men in tho camp, and they were living in a dug-out in a bank. Now, in a little over two months, there is a hotel with over sixty .'gular boarders, a smelting furnace aud a mine that employs (oi ty men on its regular shifta. THE TOWN OF LINCOLN is an institution that more will be heard ot in future. Itisoneofthe best. prettiest and most advantageous locations loca-tions in all Utah, with plenty of wood, timber and a beautiful stream of water running through it. Homes are rapidly growing up. Besides tho hotel thero is one store a branch of J. H. Dupaix, the enterprising merchant mer-chant of Minersville a saloon, corral, cor-ral, feed stable, lumber yard, shops, etc. Not less than 100 men now live here; many of them have their families fami-lies here, and more are building and preparing to bring them. By fall it will be the most flourishing mining camp in southern Utah. Tho hotel is an institution built and owned by the aforesaid "One Spicer" fortheaccom-modatiop fortheaccom-modatiop of men in his employ. THE SMELTING FCHNACE was built and is owned bythesaid "One Spicer," and his partner Jos. Smith. It has but one stack or cupola of a capacity of twenty-five tons of ore per day. Has a Xo.SSturfcvant blower with au engine of capacity to drive three of them. This smelter is pronounced by all who have seen it as being, for plan, construction and excellence of every kind, as equal to any furnace in Utah, and superior to most of them. We have a beautiful little stream of clear water that flows into our reservoirs on a level with the eaves of the furnace building, thus oeing forced through the tuyeres by hydraulic pressure. The furnace is now on her first run doing splendidly, having started it up while new, green and moist, without with-out bullion or slag, on raw and .untried .un-tried ores, during one of the worst snow storms of the winter, and have kept it running and is now running, without stop or sowing, for all of which "One Spicer" claims much of the credit. Our first, shipment of bullion ato.rUJ for the city Jaet Sunday. Sun-day. THE ROLLINS OR OLD LEAD MINE is the main and big thing of this camp. It is held by bond and leased by " One Spicer," who now employs over forty men in doing the work of developing it. It is a wonderful mine, and I do think at tho present time will ohumbrate any other mine in Utah. The shaft is now down (on an incline) about 100 feet; on a vein of solid and pure ore, say 10 feet wide some people say fourecn feet, others thirty and there are some who say 10,0 but they get excited. No one knows the size of the vein or the extent ex-tent of the ore body, because I am not taking it out to the walls or ex-tiemities ex-tiemities of it. The ore carries, in select samples,as high as 76 per cent, lead, -10 oz. silver and 4 oz gold. Thero is considerable of bright yellow ochre (sometimes called molybdates) which is low in lead, but carries all the gold. "I think the ore as a body will sample 40 per cent, lead, 30 oz silver and 5 gold. I am putting the mine in good shape, sparing no pains or expnese in timbering, and will, withiu sixty days, have steam hoisting hoist-ing works, wire rope, and all modern improvements, and bo in a condition to hoist at least 1C0 tons of good ore per day. For all this good report I here publicly tender my thanks to J. H. Dupaix and Oliver Durant who have given me the material aid that such things require. LINCOLN CAMP is brightening up wonderfully under the impetus that the smelter and the liollins mine has given it. Other mines are being worked vigorously, among them the Dayton, which has also a big strike of a fine body of carbonate car-bonate and galena ore, from four to six fept wide. In fact you may set Lincoln down as a live place, a beautiful, beau-tiful, healthy and prosperous camp, ;andallat this timo run by "One Spicer'a" checks, as everybody and all branches of business and mines . are being worked by "One Spicer'a" . books ; so that, as I said before, Lincoln Lin-coln camp, like the play of "Hamlet" "Ham-let" with Hamlet left out, is not much to speak of without speaking of that. One SriCER. |