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Show STOCKTON. Oh, Come Gentle Spring Mining Under Difficulties. There are Still Good Ledges Hid Awaj in the Mountains. Prospective Millionaires. (CorrcsivondiTico of tho Herald.) Spockton, April 7th, 1875. This camp is rapidly filling up with working men, old prospects are being relocated, new ones are being found, and the work of development in tbe , various mining properties la being pushed forward with the vim and energy characteristic of ye honest miner. TUB MINE! are tho most convenient and the easiest of access of any I have visited in Utah, being situated in the foothills, foot-hills, and can be reached without trouble by teams for tbe purpose of delivering supplies or transporting the ores to the Bmelting works which aro distant from the principal mining centre about two miles. the hills among which the mines are located r coverea witn Duncn grass anc largo herds of horses. Sheep and milch cows find them convenient con-venient grazing grounds, and the place where the greatest con-; con-; venience comes in is when the last-named last-named quadrupeds come skirmishing around after the uncertain potato peeling and get milked byyo hungry delver in the ground, thereby causing great astonishment in tho minds of tho good matrons in tho neighboring burehs at the sudden falling off in the supply ot lacteal fluid. My camp is at present the abiding nlarn nf two young Salt Lake gonts, who are in a deplorable condition. They have spent tho principal part of their early manhood cavorting around the temple block and other favorite promenades in Salt Lake city, in company with feminines of their own blissful bliss-ful age, but stern necessity, ditto parents who refused to "put up for their store clothes," forced theni to seek employment in the mines, and their minds are ill at ease; the first thought in the morning, their last word at night is of the girls they left behind them. They have grown emaciated and the clothes which were once neat fitting and looked beautifully on their wed proportioned pro-portioned forms, have become bagtry in appearance and hang upon their attenuated limbs like a purser's shirt on a hand spike. Fearing that their spirits would take a through ticket to the summer land if something was not done to relieve their minds frorni the state of melencholy and despond-oncv despond-oncv into which thev had i.Ulpn Ti constructed a picket gate on which they could lean in the evening, and I find the treatment beneficial. My visit to the SOUTHERN SECTION of the district was ill timed. It was on the miners' holiday (Sunday and those who possessed the "open sesame" se-same" to the holes in the ground in that section, were not about, consequently I cannot speak of their properties as one who has seen with his own eyes. The LEOXOEE MINE, reputed to be ene of the largest ore-producing ore-producing mines iu the camp, has a I very respectable appearance above ground, and from what I could see is fully up to its reputation. I am informed that they are working in a large body ol ore. The WASHINGTON MINE, noticed in a former letter as a very promising prospect, has developed a four foot vein of high grade smelting, ore, and I observed a long row ot sacks of ore, piled on dump ready for shipment when the weather will permit. per-mit. The HERALD MINK. is being worked by a strong force of men and looks remarkably well for the amount of development on it. The parties owning this prospect are pretty sure to realize a handsome competency as the result of their lattor and expenditure of money. The OLIVER MINE, a late location, is being worked by fits and starts as the owners can best afford, and promises at no very distant dis-tant day to be one of the A No. 1 ore producing mines of this district. The A XT ELL MINING CO., an incorporation of persons residing in Tooele city, are making a respectable respect-able show in the way of developing their various mining properties in this neighborhood, but from personal experience I can say nothing, and not having interviewed the whole company do not wish to again risk the charge of inaccuracy. Like Custos Morum, I pronounce the weather beastly. Ve have been visited visi-ted by one of the severest Btorms which has ever been experienced in this country, according to the memory mem-ory ot tbe oldest inhabitant. The storm has been raging for several days, and at the present time continues con-tinues with unabated fury. The wind, snow, hail and rain are drifting drift-ing and driving through every crevice and crany in my not-by-any-means weather-proof dwelling place. ond fierce blue jay have found out to their sorrow that in this instance it is not the early bird that catches the worm, for they are all safe under the ice and snow and could not get out to be caught if they wanted to, and the proverbial early birds aro sighing for tho sunshine and sands of Dixie. The man who watched March come in and took note what the grounl hogs and bears done on the second day of February, and prophesied accordingly, can now hunt up some other employment, for the people in this section have no more use for him or his weather-wise friends, the aforesaid hogs and bear; and in the future they will seek some other source of information. The way they were fooled this season is enough joking for one lifetime. Plus Ultra. |