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Show DRY CANON. Urbuililiuf? of Jacobs Tify. Tho Autumnal Knife Has Already Al-ready Kouml lilooil. Preparing for Die Winter. t Special Crrospontloticr.) Dry CaSon, Oct. 1, 1S7G. The town, Fhauiix-like, is beginning begin-ning to rise from its aahes. One bil Hard hull and Haluon Reese's) i nearly completed and is a veritable ironclad, both roof and walls being covered with a substantial sheathing of sheet iron, which gives it an odd , appearance. Two other frame build ingi are in course of erection in the burnt district, and eo the good work goes on, and before snow flies this coming winter the greater portion of the void caused by the la to fire will be filled. TUB FOItlfST. This would be an excellent place for Pat-on to come to for the exercise exer-cise of bis peculiar class of abilities. Where once- stood a noble forest of pine trees, whose interlacing bought) nearly or quite shut out the rays o! the sun and lonned a welcome rat ing plaeo for tho overheated prospector, prospec-tor, there is nothing left but a wilder-iress wilder-iress ol stumps, which would add charms to the place iu hie (Pat-on's) eyes, as I understand bis boIo aim in life is stumpago. FOU.VD AGAIN. Mark Twain's Norwegian, who left tho ranche humming what Mark called an eternal refrain, and who was supposed by the hifmorist to have perished in a storm of snow, has turned up in this camp alive and well. He ia a wood-chopper, and as he plies bis axe or bhw, continues to murmur out that snatch of a song. Some envious persons say that be was marked at his birth with that tune. water, water. It is all well enough to cry water, but the crying for it would not produce pro-duce aqueous fluid. Nothing short of tour cents (currency) per gallon will bring it. In tho winter of 1871 2 H. D. Converse, while prospecting, prospect-ing, lound a spring near the Mono mi no. Dur.ng the following summer he improved his find and organized or-ganized a puck train, composed ol donkeys, commonly called by the! miners, jacks, each one carrying two I ten gallon kegs tilled with water. Iu j this way the water is transported to i the various mines and the town, but this method has proved inadequate to i mo demand, wnidi is not to ue won-den-d at. considering that the Hidden Treasure and Queen mines each use about 1,500 gallons daily. The water men now proposo to tiirow away the , donkeys, and are preparing to put up a bteam eugiue at a spring over the pass and in Soldier canon, for the purpose of pumping a stream of water over the mountain ridge, when it will be conveyed by pipes to the principal mines and the town. It i hope I thereby to obtain a full supply, which hiw not been the case heretolore. THE BALL OPENS. Tiic camp may now be considered suro to live through the winter, with a reasonable show of prosperity awaiting await-ing it in the spring, for the killing season baa opened- ear'ier than usual, and people who are posted on such matters say that is a good sign of returning re-turning prosperity. Tim first case is that of one Billy Strikes, who last week fell into the hands of Pat Gib bon. Pat operated with a knife principally, and Strikes has more boles in his hide than nature in her infantile eflorts intended be should liavu, and the chances are in favor of Billy putting on angel plumnga at an early date. Primary cause, tanglefoot tangle-foot whisky leading to the use of abusive language; result, coroner's inquest; verdict, sel f defense. THE .MINES are being worked with uuiuh vim, and generally with success. Some, which were once quoted as being amongst the leading mines of the district, have beon shut up, or as it is more commonly com-monly termed, shut down, and wiilin all probability never again be worked, whilst others of which but little notice was taken in the palmy days of balloon mining with the principal works i located in London or New York, are now coming to the front as produc |