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Show DRY CANYON. Aht.ve the Fo Uevelopmcnt of Mines. Nut Fihvornblc lu LeedN. Dry Casus, Dec. 2H. 1876. Etlitura lleralti; During the pnst three waeks, and while you of a lower altitude have been enveloped in almost Egyptian darkness, we have been enjoying the most delightful weather imaginable. Tli sun has shone with almost August brilliancy and the sky has been without a single cloud to mar the beauty of its brilliant blue. It is a known lact that man delights in the misfortunes of his fellows when he himself is not a partaker of the evil. Our pleasure has beon enhanced by the fact that we could look down in the direction of the valley and see the denae log which lor weeks has chilled the marrow in the bones of the less favored dwellers there, spread out beneath us like a vast Bea of billowy, spotless, frozen foam. This state of things lasted until we begun lo think that the stern old winter king had forgotten us, and was going to speud the lull force ot his fury on our unlucky fellows beneath, but on Thursday morning the frozen mist was seen to be in motion, and pretty soon large detached masses came flying up the mountain side as if shot from some gigantic catapult, and by 4 o'clock p.m. tho fog bad vanished and on the fol'owinfc morning the mountain was covered witlsnow, and we were thereby forcibly reminded that at last we were remembered and that winter was upon ub. TE1E MINES are being worked with unusual activity. activ-ity. The near approach of tbe 1st of January, wheu relocation will bo the order of the day, has forced tUo owners of average prospects into doing assessment work at leas', while more promising properties ure beiog thoroughly prospected. This forced activity has iu some instances been J the immediate cause of the development develop-ment ol paying mines. One of these, THE MAGNOLIA, promises to amply remunerate its owners for lheirou;!ay. The property has lain idle for a lung time, or has only been worked in a desultory manner, until it became known in camp as the "pepper box mine." Lately Mr. Lafayette Granger has been working it to some purpose, and to the astonishment of many familiar with the property has made a shipment ship-ment of ten tons ef ore, thereby prov-ing prov-ing concluiively to the incredulous that there is ore in the mine. the hidden treasure has experienced a change in its management, man-agement, and as a new broom sweeps clean, Mr. Crouch, the new superintendent, superin-tendent, has been engaged for some time in remodeling the mine and preparing for a scientific onslaught ou the vast body of ore which has been unscientifically developed by the former superintendent. As a consequence of this preparatory movement, move-ment, the mine has not been as productive pro-ductive as in days gone by, and the company has been eking out their supply of ore at their smelting works by purchasing from outside mines. THE MOSO MINE. Theownersofthisonce famous mine keep nammcring away, prospecting their ground thoroughly, and tbey claim that they take out enough mineral to pay all expenses. This I have good reason to believe is correct, and overy man who has any interest in the camp wishes the plucky owners own-ers may have success in their eflorts to bring the property up to its former landaid, as the representative mine of the district. THE CiDOT MINE has lately been reopened and work resumed by parlies who have a lease and bond on tho property, and it bids fair to bo a productive miue. Tbe ore, of which there is agood-siz- d body, is of the earns character as the Queen of the Hiils ore, and judging from present indications, tha mine will soon become one of the A No. 1 properties of the district. THE SCOTTISH CHIEF MINE is being worked by Miller & Underbill, Under-bill, and shows a permanent vein two feet thick of first-class Bmelting ore. The owners propose to continue the work of development until they placo the mine at the head of tho list of ore producing mines of the, territory, and there is good reason to believe that this will be at no distant date. THE MONO TUNNEL.. Owing to thi h gh price of water, the proprietors of this work laid their Burleigh drill on the shelf and re sumed the use ot tue primitive, nam-merand nam-merand drill, propelled by engines of tbe genus homo style, but the late fall of snow will, I presume, again start the Burleigh at work. The indications indica-tions in the tunnel face lead tbe owners to believe that they ate in the immediate viciuity of a large body of ore. "THE TOWN has boen almost completely rebuilt, and there is but little evidence of tho late destructive fire remaining. Tbe buildings are of a better class than those destroyed, and the town is consequently con-sequently very much improved in appearance, making good the maxim, : "No creat loss without some small gain." THE STAJirEDE. The avant couriers of tbe returning tide of emigration from Leeds have reached camp. Tbey report very unfavorably un-favorably on the sand rock region, and unanimously declare that they don't believe miners can live on wine and wind alone, but that they must have gome admixture of every good thing which epriugetb forth from the ground. As lor the sand rock itself tney report it as ranging from fair to middling, but even that quality is gobbled up. lu the future Leeds will gather her population from some less prosperous camp than this. ..Plus Ultra. |