Show THE EARLY EAKLY DAYS BAT OF wo we received ived the fal lowing very graphic and interests interesting communication a few chun ngo ago with wilh a qualified per in 1 to publish a wo tr IT a glad now to 10 avail ourselves or mr bandol is of tile tho pioneer apostates on the mining isano in ID utah and it is iii high time every every such each man diio came caino t ti the front and received a just recognition for fer crt vicea cea rendered tho the TRIBUNE will always bo gratified to bear either directly or indirectly from friend wendell doll such stich letters as tho the annexed which might bo be easily supplemented by us with a score of similar historical hii reminiscences honi front the pens or of our correspondents are an 0 o all refutation to the th tta la te ment made in ia the a low fair days ilo il ago o that minin ba never for or an boar been op opposed dosvil ly by iho hood in ia utah I 1 june jane aa 1872 18 6 2 J friend 1 rollins your note reach reached here whilo while I 1 was wa absent at t aliko wo we abali hito have to defer our trip rip a little while as aa my ay bu luicci luiu ibets ci is duch that I 1 cannot well leave the prospect iso i that carlow has struck a good thing near meadow valley wash about forty miles below ianora Ia noca there la 10 an aa immense amount of mining going on in tho the ely district but it is if near ly all preparatory work and does docs lot act now dow appear ear in ia the ibe form of silver bricks appl gut before the alie season chi childes chilies lies there must in the nature of things bo be a great increase io crease in our oar ebi of bullion A 41 new ncr custom mill is in jooa to be put up IQ in Ilo pioche clie ray mood mill will bo be running footling in perhaps sixty days daye and their little pioneer five samper is to be started up again on custom rock the newly discovered chief did di brict on tho the bennett Houn dountain tain below bennetts spring bids fair to rival kiocho in the richness or of its mines and A ad the abundance and free character chir acter of its ita ores tho the miners there hero are going down oo on their ledges with tireless energy and already largo large piles of firs looking ores may b an seen upon apon the dumps As in Pi ciocho ocile the mines in chiefare chief are in quartzite quart zito from present the near future will do dc celop rall no immense mining lu terest in th the northern portion of lincoln county the only drawback will lia be law hit suits salts our wild cat is 19 such not in I 1 mining but iu is a legal sense A district was wan perhaps never discovered in which valuable ores were moro more generally distributed than in the ely district but ll it tales a certain amount of litigation to quiet titles all around As nil an illustration la lately lyl while producing reproducing re ro irod u cing tho the lines ties oren of an old 1 survey I 1 abc acc accidentally d dicov ered cred the truo true of the pauses isdee and andish blie stand standing ingon on tho the north base of shirts test teal moun titio I 1 bad a view of the casterly can eng terly direction of that famous ledge edge and could observe the adverse locations over its line soon to fall f all into that merciless va pit which is digging to receive them but ut there will bo be a limit even to this for while tho panaca is tion ably the crown crowning iol glory of the ely district it io ia beyond a certain point its scarecrow scare crow also alno for the reason that the original locations on that 1 ledge edge were undeniably segregated aul bal the bo labor and mews means expended upon it in and represented lut but a number of feet cc I 1 As the remaining chims chima were never represented resented at all they cannot annot bo be ma maintained i ritz ined against fl later locations wah wb ch have been and are fully depre dented by labor and espita tho the old lormon formon titles to aba panaca made ill ia the tha presence of the inspired erp erastus and in obedience to the divino divine dictum made for tile purpose ol of lerp ing the abo gentiles out of the country and to keep tho the mines from being opened are not nob war worth h a dollar a mill mile Is I 1 am glad to know that beaver county is at last permitted to expose the rich treasures trea bures or of minerals within her bordera to the ho world I 1 e can 2 n never forget the times when as the pioneer prospector of southern utah for gold nod and silver I 1 wandered over her quartzite quart ziti dykes and granite and limestone formations in company with tarlo Carlo wand waud besca and 0 D thompson and found th thac it which utah inspiration 1 said baia could not act bo be found foan d how we located what is now the many other lodges ledges how we erected monument 5 upon them hebi only to bat bate a thorn them thrown down by the be divine 1 I command of philo the bea licater demi re god and act our stakes only to them pulled up and taken alien to the hearer beaver sanctuary and there exhibit ed cd to tho the people as aa proof of foul apoi they and hostile it tent and while read ing to the meeting the names on oil those stakes bukea with wilh what indi asat emphasis they pronounced tho the namo name of general genera connor and moro than all I 1 cannot forget the holy acrimony and BO saint faint like malice with which wo we were pursued nod and how bow that divine 1 I 1 cal amoy and pious detraction did their I 1 to a destroy u UP and lad bad it not nol bee i fo for robn rohn christian 1 I have bae been told and some others wo we would bare hav e been buried in our own propped holes holca head downard with wilh the peach it la is a matter of no small g t aioo on to me that as far back as aa the winter of 1 I 1 1 I t told ld ill the 0 utah dichy that tho the ceif wealth of the be territory was waa in ill her mines that it was wah his duty to cice arigo tho the development of at that wealth and that if he be did noto not the timo time was waa ricer nor at hand or when hen our mines would be opened anyhow and that in the lauer case cape tho the M armons W who he then bad it in their power to possess themselves of this wealth by g their opportunity would the hewers of wood and drawers of water to the gentiles it i is to day orly t I 1 to go ioto into a anywhere an within miles of be salt lake to see bow low fally that prediction in ia fulfilled III led I 1 dibut know now ethdl I 1 vae bo much mach of I 1 et I 1 notwithstanding the at ak of tho the deity that the cline badot como come to lu discover the mines mine and work heui so c did then sod and there discover plenty ot of then atheni though he hail bad the power to prevent us ua from working thum them I 1 here hare written you B long lettia let tir but I 1 cannot close without remind iiii you yon that you were the cause of the first but excitement la in utah upon the abject or of mining you will icat I e I 1 that b cot be before I 1 or went to tho 1 tore u re io in 62 1 think it via iron aroa A to nio that there was no territorial alluto which protected you in your ory right to your load lead millir mil TO zaina in in the mineral ranga real and asted mo 0 if I 1 could nut not introduce a bill that aba t would meet eiloe a we I 1 to try iry well I 1 introduced a bill to ao and protecting possessory rights to willing luini tig claims but 0 have clito it a lively little tittle time in id th the legislature over that lill 7 A erdl reel diwi disc irom unon adiong imon the late lam riak maccri era of utah I 1 one which had bell not act b beao een bod fil ad dp a ia the and ia that hat august assem assemblage blago for the ibe purpose of making the gover nor dor and other federal officials rials think that of debato was ras a matter of course in ia the ho mormon Legio legislature lature weh the discussion became wv warm the deity appointed a certain little giant to oppose the iho bill that abat ame member came to we cao then sod sicre privately prita lely and to tup that my position was waa the right ono but bul said he bo it is ia against the president a policy and JC it cannot pass kaaa pending the th pass ago of tho bill illa a ce certain I 1 tain canie candeto to me ina lad and whispered that thai the president ordered we me w u shut saat up but I 1 luo ina that I 1 win was right and unfortunately for roo me stood mood by and maintained the ibe right I 1 was wa privately war tied by a friend to lookout look out for myself W th kill bill was B lost hilt but it may not ie be egotistical in we me to say aay that the entering wedge was waa then bai in ia due course burst asunder the solid rocks that have for countless ages confined within and beneath them the untold treasures or of the everlasting hills I 1 havo have wila dered since inco how it was waa bat I 1 jared dared to alo take each bach an ao an position to tho the pull policy lej of tho the akin kingdom adom in id that thab car early y day ay when the theocrat of utah was in the zenith of his power prom from that hat time I 1 became of course a doomed man when we meet we will have havo along a long that ht sibon aboa athe aull lang syne of gutalj youia sincerely 0 IV WANDELL |