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Show LEEDS. Another Report from Spicer. Who Praises (he District as Usual. But Iuvilcs Iho Impecunious to Stay Awuy. Leeds, Januury 13th, 1877. I have not written for a long time, principally because I could not do so without writing favorably of the camp aud country, and that might induce some who read it to come here, and there are too many coming now. It is a goad minicg camp the best I know of in the weBt, but at present there are no mills hero, and but very little money and less work. Many a poor devil will suffer here this winter. My advice has always been to bring grub and blankets for a whole winter's campaign. If men would come with the funds to enable them to buy aud develop claims, or to woik them on shares, they could do well enough, but where one such man comes there are twenty who are "chock full of day's work," but not a dollar or a week's grub. As soon as the mills are running and more mines working it will be time enough for the "impecunious "impecu-nious cusses" to come, but first let a few men with a little capital trot along to Bet the ball in motion. SILVER REEF CITY is at present the great centennial show of our camp. It is quiie a city; has a big hotel, several large, first-class first-class restaurants, general stores, hardware hard-ware store, groceries, three meat markets, a dozen aalooue, shops of all kinds, about fifty Chinamen and women, barber shops, several assay oflices, Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express, paint shops, billiard halls, fast women establishments, gamblers and all the hereditaments of a western town with full complement of -"modern civilization." civiliza-tion." " BONANZA CITY adjoins it and is also fast improving. It has carrals, tores, saloons and many other institutions, and about divides th Chinese persuasion with its neighbor. Its location is the bent, and will make a pleasant place for a town. These places are about two miles from THE TOWN OF LEEDS, which is the old town of the camp, located on the main traveled road to St. George. Leeds is doing a little in the way of improvement, and it is believed by many will eventually be the main town of the county. It is the most central to all the mines, being surrounded by them on all sides; has plenty of.water, is an old-established old-established town with acres of crape vineyards and rcbards of fruit trees; is on the main thoroughfare to St. George and tha Grand Gulch copper mines and all the new districts recently re-cently discovered south and east. A ferry is being established on the Colorado Colo-rado river below St. George that will open up a general Lravel and stage line to Prescolt,-- Walapi, Cerbal, Mineral park and the new settlements on the Little Colorado. These things will have their effect in time to edtab-n'tih edtab-n'tih he trail nt LactU, but at present everything is rushing into Silver Reef city, THE LEEDS 3. M. CO.'a MILL is progressing finely,. but will require about forty days more to com d let e it. It will be a fine mill when completed ten stamps, eight pans and four settlers. THE DUrAIX MILL . is progressing finely, and will be in operation by the 1st of February, It has a splendid water power, will do a good busintss and make money. The Steele Lamb arastra, just below it, is doing a quiet, steady business. TROUBLE ABOUT MINES is fast looming np. The first fight of the season took place last woek on the Reef; no deaths nor bones broken. The cause of much trouble will be tbe loose and inefficient mannerin which many of the claims have been located, aud the unlimited ambition of many of the first comers and old settlers to gobble up the whole country by simply piling up four or five stones on tbe top of each other, without doing any work or finding any vein, and then recording it as a mining claim. The legal fraternity, with an eye to business, have "unified the smoke of battle from afar," and have packed their blankets, Blackstones and grub to be within relieving distance of the wounded in the fray.' Already we find W. - J. O'Dougherty with his shingle out, Gold th wait and Judge Reeves from Pioche, and Judge Wbedon from Beaver, all on the ground ready for business, and plenty of business they will have. Several doctors are also here to bind up the wounds as soon as cutting commences, com-mences, j THE M1SBS - - . are certainly looking well and doing well. All the old mines are improving improv-ing as they are worked, and new locations are beiug made that produce pro-duce good ores and show well for good mines. I will not particularize any of them, but say good for all. The general grade ot the ores, as I have always said, will not come up to reports, but there is plenty oi fair grade ore that will not p;iy to ship to Pioche, hut will pay wonderoualy with a mill here. .. A SNOW STORM 1 yesterday and- to-day ii the lutes', novelty. It was a very severe storm for this country, much worse than anything we had last winter. The ' ground to-day is covered with about four inches of snow. NEW DISTRICTS are reported daily as being discovered atditlerent points awivy from here, ranging from the Clara to Mount Trumbull on -the Colorado, thence northeast to the Buckskin or Kybat mountains and Pahria river; also up the Virgin river and Skoolempah. Very fair specimens of silver ores and rich copper are brougbt in from these places; copper from nearly all of them. Spicer. |