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Show IlliY CANUN. Wraih of tho iurm Klun;. Old Mines It ecomi New, null New Ones (iiewitt Hih. Black Hills Fovttv. (Sinviifct Corruiinitfinoa of tlio lUaL.J Di;y OaSos, January ltitli, 1S7". This camp or scetion of country has hen toloie on joy oil an immunity fr in loiy aovm e ntorms ami heavy deposits of btiow, but this winter the programme pro-gramme lias been changed. The beautiful llcoey has fallen, not in ll.ikes, but in m:iMd6, and for some, day tho indication were that the utonn king had concentrated all bis forctui iu this tpiarter for the purpose of nuuihilating, or, as objects baleful ' to his eyes, forever and completely ; bury i i g us Irom his flight beneath mountains ol Irexen snow. j TUB STOKM ' I Mgevl with unexampled fury for five, days, ouo steady, CJUtimied fall of snow, and when there- seemed to be1 nn more snow tD tall, a north wind , set in apparently for tho purjKJso and j of redistributing and arranging the uniform icy covering which the elements ele-ments in their fury had llui'g upon us. l'lie wind, which soon inei eased , in ihtiieii.ti. is to a hurricane, and . might, judgiu ; from its force and Ino ' direction whence it came, lie a stiay , zephyr from Washoe, raised the now , i irom its earthly reeling place, and hurled it to and fro, up and duwn, ! now this way, now that, until tho mi became a moving snow bank, ami the country which formerly presented an undulating landscape., composed of lull and dale and sliaip ravine, became a blank, level expanse uf e potlet white. During all this time tne OKK-IIAL'LLUS made heroic el Fori to keep tne roidi "pen, but siicnailv failed. Ibnv could it he otherwise? WhiUt shoveling awav "Willi Dnlit and main one of the men re.iiiifii tiiat some, snow was intruding it u.iwclcomo presence Ijetween tho cuticle of his neck and nn shirt collar, liiiukiug it was a prank ou the pari of some of his lellow laborers, he turned to eittulate with the oi lender when imagine hss horror! the snow bad drUUt into tho place where lid tout becu shoveling and had formod an IMl'ASSABLK WALL, tn leet hign, immeiliately in his rear and tjetnt-en hunselt and co-laUrers. He was he an! to murmer as lie piungvU into tin- snow on his way to town: "Ual lUnulis tlitugbt' he did a b:g thing in that sta'-le cleaning h'.i-ines, but I'll !et a contract on this snow-siiovel:ng would have got away :t!i him." THE TOWS lias a lively appearance, and the b.irgiiwrs have an animating stort coasting, with which they wnile away tne letlioos hours, lid and young, male and female, are on from early dawn until the midnight hours, en-j en-j gaged in the exhilarating eport of sliding down the hill. A butter place I for the sort could hardly be luutid. Tnere is always plenty ot toil, and ttie only trouble experitncevl in pre-, venting the sled from going too laat j and too far. Sometiims the boys induce in-duce a luckless wiglit of a greenhorn green-horn to mount a pair of snow shoes, and then ti.l the air with demoniacal shouts and laughter as he goes tumh.ing bead over heels through the snow, and tlio treacherous shoes go down the canoa hke a nlj-cak ol THE Mists are being worked with coiiimendabie i energy. Tne law of 1S7-, relating to-mining to-mining matters, has lecu a benelit to tins camp, in.-tead o( being, as many prophesied, a curse. Tne owners ol properties which would have re-inniied re-inniied donnanl fur an indefinite i pf r.od of time have, by this law, hem ' comp'-lled to resume work or lorKit llieir claims, and in alnioat every in- ; stai:ce such rcsuinpLiou of work has been followed by sacces in the way of finding large bodies of paying mineral. min-eral. Fur instance THE SCOTTISH CHIE F, heretofore working ou a large b.j.Iy of baso and rebellious ore, and only worked is required by law, has developed de-veloped a large body ot valuable : smc'Ling ore, similar in character to that of the Hidden Tressure. The1 new find underlies the vein or body of pyrites and sulphur which apparently lorms the head or hanging wall to the true body of ore. Tuis discovery is a windfall lor the owners, they having worked long aud faithfully to 1 develope their property. ' The Bams , may be said of tho FOURTH OF JULY, j one of Lilly, Leisenring & Co's numerous mines. They had burnt! their finders through Commodore j Jacobs, and would only work their : property by giving a lease to others. The lessees in this case have struck a! soft thing. They found a vein of ore j five leet thick, aud are now straining, every nerve to clean it out before the' lease expires. The ore is galena and j carbonate in its character, of a good j grade for smelting purposes, and far, superior to anything heretofore found in tho mine. THE MAGNOLIA MINE, j by many supposed to have sunk into oblivion, has resumed operations, : under tho supervision of Fayette: Grander, who savs ha has hemmul weary of masterly inactivity, and the tomloolery of grasping at shadows; that there is ore in the mine, he knows it, and like a sensible fellow he is going to follow it until he places tho property on a self-supporting, dividend paying basis, and the chances are that i! he follows up that idea, j and gives the theorists and experts a wide berth ho will mako the mine a success. THE YOUSO AMERICA, for a long time idle, and now involved iu the misty haze of a legal contest, has, like its namesake, declared that it will not be content tj remain behind be-hind in the race lor celobrity as an ore producing mine, and so comes to the front with a rush, and under the management of T. R. Miller proposes to commence shipping ore instanter. The ore body, uutil lately uufound, lays to the left of the former workings, work-ings, and consists of a vein oi ore two feet thick, of a high grade ana free from any deleterious matter or mineral. min-eral. This property will some time in the future be one of the good things much desired by the children of men. THE POCAU0NTAS MIME, another loused property, has for some time past been making almost daily shipments of ore, and although there is "no admittance" over the door, "U bet" on ; the saeks, aud an uncommunicative un-communicative look on the faces of tho lessees, the fact has leaked out that they are driving their incline through a body of carbonates aud galena ore five feet thick, and from present indications the vein continues indefinatcly to the right and left. 'INK III. ACL HIM.ri, And Sitting Hull, or that other individual indi-vidual Willi lhe Kll.'C,eMlUi CO.M)"nieUl Mau-Afruid ol his I hune, will e.ilel. about (wO-lllihU ol till) loiw-fnnli i and some of the fant-fooUd men in Ibis rump. The Cm r i already veiy prevalent, and hint iurrearing. Tin1 victims show a ilceided mid praiseworthy praise-worthy denirn to purchttnu repeating liieariiiH, at ul in their delirious moments mo-ments a m given to making inquiries an to the relative, merits and demerits ol death-dealing inventions, or else making pertinent querii-fl as to which of the uisny is the anient route to the Ihg Medicine lode, where the most part will certainly hii cured of their madiu'HH. The must laughable symp loin of the levur is that each und every one piohr-la that lie is not alraid of "InjuuM," U'h nome "nlher teller that's sKei-retl." I'l-l'S Ul.t liA. |