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Show DRY CANON. 'Tins I'ld-a" Returns to His First Love. And Resumes Operation in I he Oplnr District. JtvltCH HU(I FaCl A Oil thc.lilllUM of Dry luuou. jSpi-cial Cyr respond1 i)t;i'. , Dky Canon, Sept. 37, l7tl. After spendiug the summer nieau-deriug nieau-deriug about from one camp tp, another and barely escaping an attack of Bluuk Hills fever, J npiiu return fo this place the old rtiliaMti with -many others, aa well a myself, my-self, satisfied that although there are many disadvantages bure wludi.iha miner has to encounter, the advunt' BL'PB am larnOv in f:ivrr if vinm ayes arc largely m lavor oi iiuk camp as compared with any otlmr silver mining camp which I have visited in Utah. Thore have beon many changes in the place since my last sojourn in the camp. Amount then is the destruction by tire ot - - - JACOBS city. Why it should bt dignified witli Uio name of city I have never boon aide to learn, unless it was because ofiu proximity to Stockton, and tkierey got the ' name city like the boy caught ibe.itchat school by diuitig next to' one infected. At present tbe major portion of what ust;d to b? tho business portion of the town is a blackened rum, and presents a tery desolate, appearance indeed. Many of the merchants who iulltretl most hb;ivily by. tho conllagratiou: were men who came into the camp in its infancy with rmall stocks -of goods, and bad grown up with . the pluo until they had become possesei of a comfortable competency; bui aUul one short hour in ibe grasp uf Llie dread fire king, nnd their all h;id vauishctl thwir goods and houses, the results of years of patient toil were r duced to aihea, and they must again begin at the bottom of the hill in their struggle for independence. Seme are beginning to rebuild, but mauy declare de-clare that they will seek fresh fields and pastures ueiv before trying ugaiu, the mines. Those that are being worked are very prosperous, and arc improving every day as the work of development goes, forward. Many old' propertitji that have lain idle sinec the first crash of the money panic, or have only becu I worked sufficiently to covtr the , amount required by law to hold the claim, are being leased or bonded fur long terms by outside parties, and the work of development on these mines is being pushed vigorously. The FOURTH OF JULY MINE w one of the latter class and has beau leased by the Bamberger Bros, who baTe opened up the mine and are taking out some ore, which in character char-acter much resembles tbo Hidden Treasure ore. Work properly ap plied on this property wul make it one of the best ore producing mines of the district. The " SCOTTISH CHIEF MINE has also got into the hands of eastern parties who are pushing the work of development with conmendahle energy. en-ergy. . The ore body in this mine lies in limestone and beneath the fame belt ot slate which covers tbe Hidden Treasure ere body. The vein of ore is about two feet thick, overlying a body of rebellious ore consisting ol galena, iron pyrities and , tulphur, which is about three ft thick.. jJTim rebellious matter is lust giving pi ace to an ochraceous ore, which carries about thirty ounces ot bUvut: aud 2d per cent, lead to the ton. , Xqc.. . MOS0 TUNNEL , v is being worked by the aid of a Burleigh Bur-leigh drill, nnd they are making fearful fear-ful headway in driving their tunnel 1 into the Mono mountain. The present pres-ent face of the working is about, 400 feet from tbe surface, but as yet uo ore has been struck, although during the past week good indications of the proximity of a body of ore have b.-en found. , In THE MONO AILNE tlie-work ofprospecdng goes bravely on under the able management of George Clark. Various reports of big Btrtkes of ore in this- mine have been afloat during the past three months, but nothing is definitely known about the truth or falsity ot the rumors. Tbe workmen Bay that there is good ore in the mine, which must be a new discovery, as RobinBon, a fine-haired fine-haired chap Irom Fr'isco, tbe former foreman, did not leave any behind him. There have been some shipments ship-ments of eood ore made which indicates in-dicates that its chances for a resume of former productiveness are more than good. Tho KEARSARUE JUNE is being worked under a lease by the -Smith Bros, of Richmond vs. Teresa fame, who are doing some very persistent per-sistent prospecting in the lower workings for the purpose of finding tbe lead which has been lost for some time. One of the leasees informs in-forms me that he has lately found what be believes to the "lost link." If this be so, the Kearsarge will again, at no far distant date, come into notice as a wealth producing mine, i The me QUEEN OF THE HILLS. To say anything of this bonanza in the way of praise would be like painting the lily or adorning the ruse. The world I mean the mining world knows of its fame and the "blarsled Britishers" thank it for keeping up the atock of tbe Chicago (limited). The workmen say they are working out about two acres of ore in the breast, and that there seems to be no end, Bides or lop to the ore body. Certain it is that it produces about fifty tons of ore daily and gives employucut to eighty miners. min-ers. TUB SMELTEB3 about Rush lake are all working to their utmost capacity. Lougmaid and Dowling have thrown up their lease of the old Jacobs furnace, and I am informed that the Chicago Bilver mining min-ing company (limited) have taken tbe works under their wing. They have also taken a lease on the Balh and Buckhorn (consolidated), Grey Rock and other mines in East canon. THE MORALS uf the camp are good very good. The stray bullet has not made ita , usual autumnal -visit. There is less than the usual amount of combative-nees combative-nees induced by tanglefoot manitested in camp, although a wild miner was seen going up the y,rade towards tbe Mono veslerday, evidently under the iutlueiice of the beverage which in-toxicau-B but does not slhe, Hinging liw apparel, piece by piece, down the bill as he went, and vowing vengeance dire on some bedy. As nobody has been had for breakfast, I presume be thought better of it and went to bed. Plus Ultra. |