Show glint ral Vs F it 61 led to way any of 00 ur alli all I nair at 8 our end predict fi from ies my ey dd d of laar mail wora if aue ell M aitho ta abea afan ajr ita f informs tah 10 fwu me KJ a 11 LATEST FROM STAR ua 1812 1872 A constant reader of your nd tailing deep interest ID in every thing filing connected with mining it 1 I have peril led with ich great glut pleasure your numerous eler clear lucid and nil luminous articles artic tei 00 oo be b condition e of the iho different miling camps on the coak L prom from the fullness loll nosi and dd variety of tr or tides especially in regard to fi the be minu mines of utah it is very evident that you joa lave an a able idd and muni crous corps of contributors contributor throughout the territory boil in view of this fail my at oni is is redoubled that no DO one of f them has found his bit wj way to the promising district from which I 1 write to partially rectify tho IMS emission I 1 in live concluded to embody the result of my in i few remark as to the lb location and adv an tg or of the dettrict dittri ct with brief mr rafi relive to some ol of I 1 lh he principal mines minca STAR DISTRICT Is situated in an aa isolated floge of hills bills having a general northerly and nd southerly direction about eighteen miles milc long lying directly to ali the west or of heater river where the litter males in n abrupt turn in it its westerly course cour flO and runs anos duo dorth to its ill pink fink in tile the desert it is divided ioto into four separate ec camps campf to wit north middle west went and nd south star tile nearest lomonico postoffice lo Post tonico office is at A small town on the beaver bearer river distant IG miles mile Mine reville under tho the genial influence of gentile energy and thrift is i beginning to emerge from tire billip van winkle sleep to which in it common with most of the other owes of southern uthera eo utah it had teemed seemed doomed and boil 1 ready boasts blaik of a shop hop livery bublo alid iid butchers chop the two latter things utterly unknown in the be Q pt A A new sad and commodious store flora has hall recently literally been erected by J n R dupaix formerly farmerly of pioche where eve r attaining tta ining to a mining outfit t C can r ie A found it at reason reasonably ablo prices pricell fl and where is 13 also ahio tho the office of wells nellt fargo co cc Is loiter letter x everywhere evidences of tho the a vent of i a busy and prosperous popoli tion tra are to be wen men ROW now TO TIIE MIXES MINIS ivery kf cry day the silt salt lale and bioche stages lagat through roville one from et ther direction band an ex e wagon alares fur one or other of fr the caffe camps every day shortly after the at r iva of the abo stages leaving acari og elal f alc then ihen behind us aud and fL irling ng the river ou on its ita west e aly bank lor for a few miles wo we cross the valley by tho the finest and smoothest of natural roada initial mod and striking the range lango of bills before alluded to at it it ita southern extremity soon oon reach bouth STAR the llie first discoveries of miner nl 4 jf ty 1 tyr ui Brei r a eighty to one td bondred rc d f ltd t in it depth olin hc mount ver vernon non maxwell and mam ledges all in good stages of development and showing good ore or and cropping boldly out and traceable for a great arc tt tance lance ia Is the llie bibbins ledge nw now being worked by capt won win with good promise of success ile he has a eltoft down ou on the ledge seventy fire feet and is pressing the work a niah ith all lie speed tho the voi roin rho w a well I 1 rin in tho the bottom of lb the e boalt and the captain hu has a large amount or of oro ore on tho the of a grade leaving unnoticed for want of time and space numbers of ledges quite as promised prom isiD oa as those mention ed cd above and on only y needing development 0 a male make them equally valuable rateable wo we cross the sharp dividing ridge that tle the camps and find ourselves in stan containing some of the most promising lodges ledges in the entire district dietrict among g may be enumerated the lureka eure Lu reki ild the ewt chance now being worked vigorously under the supervision of D il 31 mail hill esq F q the horn saver with a shaft on the ledge fifteen feet in depth and show ebon ing fifteen inches of oro ore carrying as its ita nime name indicates indicate considerable horo horn silver the elephant the vulture on OB which i a contract has just jest been let to ink a abaft fifty feet oo on the ledge od lid many others all good oreas ore us far as opened one mile and A halt liala to 0 o tile the westward is WEST the he lateau discovery lot lilt by no n means I 1 llie a lost cast promising work has been pasi here with unabated zel rest from ila lt fir first t covery not quite three months aco a 0 as the ibo following partial record wi will I 1 abuD abundantly dantly show the lookout with abaft thirty feet deep I 1 medulla fifteen feet feel temperance efty feet clipper ten feet ilora flora I 1 twenty he five feet act and ud wild hill fifty aty feet deep with between eighty noil and one hundred tons tona of ore on oa the he dumps dump the oro ft thia camp is its free and can bo be easily mill without the intervention of roasting furnaces fura acca most meet of it is ii ol it a high grade prospecting is IB being heio actively act iely carried on lets here as ai well as throughout the entire district aad oj frequent dis dib co veries of great richness reward the he numbers of hardy miners miner who are arc daily pitching their tents in 10 ono or other 0 of the different drop camps now to middle camp and ad following the noo logo northward north about three aad ad a we como to the main contre centre of ol 01 attraction norin STAR eran how long it can regain it its supremacy the develop men is dow cow lulling asking in ia south weft and oil middle star no ono can say but for the it leads ibe ginevan ti nevan tan and with good food promise its position po I 1 taking items 04 wo we go the unit first mien or of any aay cuce that we find is in the midi ai a v vein cropping trop ping out the F ellb 6 b of the C cit I 1 iii and belonging to and discovered by Glass GI auford furd co A ob A ft lian las been took on thu this acia a eighteen feet in ore all the way and the tb py pay streak or richer fortion of the be veto ton in u about two and ono half fee fret twide on the he dump are upward of f thirty tons ton of ore winch which it u is con COD r believed will average avenge ono I 1 ladr and birly dolliro d per et too ton buyl b have ve been frequently obtained it ven hundred to one thousand dollars the ore is ii no dot difficult to la work though doubtless an moro ore satisfactory results rejoin will be obtained oban with roasting 1110 wi without phout parallel with ilith the midas loj and or of a similar character of ore we lad find the be malilda anil and washington 1 ledger c 1 une 1 both 0 1 in largo large strong lodes with i il dons on them but bat showing an t bandar of ore as fir far As the work has ha progressed passing stal till to lo the northward we reach the lindsey mine on oa this ledge a shaft fifteen feet fed in depth and an n incline of about twenty feet blows ft a fine anc unbroken vein about two wo feet and it half wide esery carrying log reel leat ore of cf a similar amilar i character mod and tally fully equal to that 0 of 17 the midas some ten tons toni or of very high grade ore are piled up on the dump um not no I 1 far beyond the lindsey is the jg great t shenandoah ledge I 1 be liv lieve the brigil nil in N nordi orth star ond anil discovered and allied I 1 I 1 like ike the hidu eidam matilda etc by gliford A co the shenandoah and all the principal mines in a north star runt runs io in a northeasterly and southwesterly wet terly direction with a very slight dip to the northwest mind nd is ia situated in ill the low foothills foot hilli next to the valley showing itself in a cropping afim memia size cize sad for a great distance la ILI sev rot places by cleat measurement me I 1 ile vein is over 40 feet in width and it is ii literally true irue that over thi his great area art it is ie to fracture is the surface of the r rock X w with t h out betraying the prep pree en enco theo of f oen mio in e cral r a 1 A shaft has ht leen ban sunk lunk on the ledge near the centro centre or of the droppings crop pings bo be wreco 40 and 50 feet in ore all the way at a depth orloo of rectie feet it esthe in the intention to drift arrow across th the ledge sod find fiad its true width between the walls to where acre wonderful developments may be looked for they have bate a large amount of first class ore on tho the dump Is and ad are 0 r rapidly and adding S to d it ge aebic 61 have in aias L been ce n obtained obtain tied from rn abl lb mine all le 1 the way from fitly fifty to two thousand dollars per ton the and crossing crosing BIOR the shallow gulch that forms the main street direct or of the embryo town to 0 o which I 1 shall refer hereafter i anil and following roti foli I 1 owing the miti cral belt in ifa northward ard course conree we are arc text belt confronted w with tile the to a miners inert in eye ye beautiful dump or of file old hickory IL clory worthy of its ill name it all corn com pe titers and is i the first object that attracts all racla tho attention of the bel beholder older as lid he eaters ahr camp from the valley below the old hickory in ono one of tho the very first locations in north stor stir is is a large well defined vein sod and crops out at boldly for some dit dik tince it in r under the energetic moua management gement of ofa J doyle esq eq and he be it is pushing work on tho anine with commendable zeal real the main thail is now DOW about thirty five feet deep in ore all the way and at a depth of I 1 thirty birty feet disclosed cloned a large body or of very rich decomposed chloride ore broj the extent of which can call only bo be known by cross drifting as the baugbog wall alloo is is now in eight the ores in this mine are principally chlorides and ajr II tb ai i 1 I 1 hill l with a little little galelia ga legia tile lat latter ter riche rich lir ir silver tb tho 0 baft ill 8 being driven night flight and day and since inco tho the recent earile the ground being touch much softer good progress is ia mado made probably not less thin than tour four tons of ore wort worth h an average of two and airty dollan are per ton is w bei being ag raica entry I 1 wenty twenty four foul boura in simply limply the abaft between eighty and tons of such ore are now dow ow on the ilbe dump certainly not a bail bad at owing for a tingle of so eo trifling al depth A short ditanno di tance tanco to the south ward hickory is is the and northward about one hundred and it filly feet tand and running parallel with it is the harrington arrington II ledge beyond the harrington arrington II are the berlin burlington to with willi a shaft boole thirty feet deep an owned by cooko co the merri marri mae shall eight feet by glassford Gl aMford J co the O Oace beolan oli noa 09 1 2 and 31 3 1 all I lin fine e looking ou kne vens veins and showing 9 good 00 0 ore rp w willi it unit many others othera well worthy of notice did I 1 tim im 9 and space permit naif half a mill mile still further north dorth ia i a the rebel claim on rebel nil hill this fedgo led g e c crops r op a out for upwards of one me thousand abo thou u jand sa a d feet f acet and allda a abaft has hag been sunk seek on OD it seventy reel feet with a drift from the bottom of the abaft forty character of ore heavy beav y I 1 call carbonates and oaid 0 of f I 1 lead ca Is perhaps one ODO hundred tons on the dump worth or oo an balge ral ge fifty dollars per ton OD y below tho the old hickory and add mines on a gentle slope alope I 1 beaver e aver river from which h it is distant three and a lair half miles is ii shenandoah city it at pro pre sent of some dozen doxon framo frame buildings huddle and aad several brush shanties thao tiei and aad tata brit confidently heliend by it a io a habitants to bo be the nucleus n of a city before whose star even the ia led must at some distant day 11 palo its ineffectual fires firca and truly if abundance and richness richous of oro ore be any guarantee of future pro perty shenandoah city baa no flig future before her WOOD AND WATER water las hu hitherto been supplied by teams baulio from tho the river I 1 at very low rates but lut lost welk a splendid spring of water was wa struck in ia west weal camp which is i abundantly ablo able to supply the wh whole 0 with ltd water for drinking drioLi Dg and culinary calina rj put pur poses lor ler present uses anil and within five fire miles exists in inexhaustible buloti ties lies MILL oo on beaver river with wilh splendid natural broadd thereto lad and do blown we grids grade ill all tho the wy way are re to hi be to found und excellent sites ites for all the mills louls t bat can caa ever be to crush tho the ores of star dibi t i the oil of all mcw V 0 W lid jed their heir name ame h is ig ra to at the ad I 1 I bil high 11 average of the ores ore lof of abo th a district and there is no ao doubt J that if futura developments carry out the present promises of the mimes stir star district is destined to tilo take rank amo among 9 tha dis foremost silver producing product districts district of utah or the he coast so miltia meto it be b a VAIE VA I 1 E they hito advanced adran Mi as 31 far As i a mia Q at itrel in tho the colony i FROM TINTIC the following ike in been rot us ui for publication cirr utah territory Tin Hory I 1 february I 1 1879 J we the of district ii strict hert begab min pledge ourselves that we will 0 ool of A moy miners claim in this district a itric whose ho name dim shall hill be b signed to this agreement except such ground as shall be according to the ibe laws of tin this diat subject to lo relocation tad and v we hereby further cledge pledge our I 1 to to give git the original nil orator ten tea days notice nonet or of our intent lo 10 0 c a t 0 h hn s claim nothing intention ia lon the 0 r t g ol 01 aig shall hill prohibit man lira from setting like on oa ground subject to provided however ho weTer that h he shall hall not DOI file eta or record without girior the ho ten days notice gotico to the ibo original oal locator to T 0 the above we ire the undersigner undersigned under signed 11 II 11 gree agree to defend each others othen maniag mio bog rights right as ai though they were conr own I 1 to which W 6 pledge our sacred boon hobor I 1 to the a bove bote over ZOO names ing bre to been becq ignec SEWS NEWS FROM PROVO february 26 2 2 EDITORS jair tit acie noti the very tery severe poor enow otora that commenced at tn an early tour boor yesterday morning and continued without abatement until a lite late hour boar lust last evening the coach from tho the terminus brought a iltem rood loid load of legal delit lemed amont Ince flIt them hil li n honor who this morning proceeded to kocien open court put pur biant to adjournment tho he grand and petit jurica were called aroa when en there being ing no U attorney ama pre enito ent 1 the b alrand jury jary were delicti arged without u t JBV y leaving a number of raises cue ira proper 1 per to be brought before it to lay on the half until this court shall appear to hoof be of such cuch importance as to ment it public pro buting officer or a ulve I 1 however lo wever ill the criminals are outon out on bail to no DO pe hardships or will retell result from this sin 0 at state to of affairs th I 1 a 11 following ol lowing caseb cu were railed called up and disposed of jho ile people is johnson indictment rr rot murder continued to next adjourned term though conese for defendant tried to bring tho the ome ease to trial thin term the vs tt cox coi bound over from Alder alderman mans court coort fur 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