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Show DRY CANON More Good Xows i'lvin Ophir DiMrirt. Which Asserts a Claim to (ireat- lH'SS. Fiiio Wttntlic-r, Ktrli itllnuN, (jiootl KuuiIm, una Jubl-laut Jubl-laut Mln era Dry CaSox, Fub. 6, 1S77. Editors Herald: This camp is so fur ahead of the Dry Cufion ol a year ago that those who were beat posted at that time, if absent for the past six moutlis, would not recognize it as- being the same place. It woara the belt with becoming be-coming pride as the champion silver-producing silver-producing camp of Utah; and for lively times will compete with the days of "uuld lang syne,' when everybody who owned on interest in a prospect hole accounted himself rich, and his only fear was that he would, owing to hia iinpecuuiosity, bo tempted to sell his prospect for less than half of its imaginative value. THE KEARSARGE, by some known as the"Ira mine," is now held and worked by Callahan & Co. under a lease, and about ton days ago the boys struck the lost lead, the finding of which has been the dream of more than one miner in camp and which the owners, Lilly, Leiaen-ring Leiaen-ring & Co., would not .be induced to look for. The new strike, or find, of the original chimney of rich ore ; occurred at a depth of about 400 feet, ; and consists of a defined vein of rich ore about three feet thick. The ore ' ranges in value from $200 to $H,000 per ton, and if Madam Rumor can 1 be believed the preponderance is largely in favor of the higher grade. 1 Certain it is that large quantities of the ore are being shipped to your city ; through Wells, Fargo & Co's express. This brings the mine to its proper standing the greatest silver and ore-producing ore-producing mine in Utah. THE MONO MINE. It is an old but nevertheless a true saying that "it never rains but it poura." The camp has long sufiered from and attack of "the Dlues" in consequence of the failure ol some of the standard properties this one amone the number to come to time with their usual quotas of ore, but "a change has come o'er the spirit of our dream." The Mono is now producing pro-ducing large quantities of rich ore, and the vein heretofore much broken, ur entirely lost, has become prominent promi-nent and well defiued. THE EVENING STAR MINE, for a long time idle or only worked by fits and starts, was lately reopened and some prospecting done in the lower level, and theresultof this prospecting pros-pecting has been the finding of a large body of ore, tho existence ot which had not heretofore been suspected. sus-pected. Work will soon be commenced com-menced on this property in earnest, so I am credibly informed. THE FOURTH OF JULY. , Here is another one. During the past week the virgin snow around this mine, which has lain throughout the entire winter unbroken,- unspotted unspot-ted and undisturbed, has been trampled down and shoveled away; the horse whim has been in motion, and workmen have been seen hurry ing to and fro, aud finally the fact has leaked out that a well known mining man has leased the property, and to use his own words, "is going to rush things." The beat part remaius to be told he has got a very larvae body ol ore to help the rush along. i THE WEATHEK is just lovely the beat there ia in the shop. Please give Old Prob'a clerk our comphmeuu. lie has certainly favored us very much this winter, And we consider nim a very impartial gentleman, as well as an efficient public olbcer. The snow for the past fortnight bus been thawing so fast that the waterman, a surly kind of a fellow at best, has been seen to smile, but it was when he thought nobody was looking at him. THH ROADS' have, contrary to our usual experi ence, remained passable during the entire winter, and the ore teams have never been delayed on account of drifting enow over a balf day so far, with the chances in favor of the woret part of the winter season being past and the roads remaining open for the balance of the season. RAILROAD. The mining interests of this section are sadly in want of a railroad, one which will reach a point in near proximity to the miues, and give the ore producer a by no means to be despised claes cheap transportation for their ores to a market where they will have the benefits of competition. The Utah Western has remained with its terminus at the Half Way house so long, that wool this isolated district have almost come to the conclusion that lying still is a chronic disorder with it or that the Half Way house was rtally its objective point. Pll's Ultra. |