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Show A MINING BEVIVAL. Fair Prices for Lead and Silver Building; up the Mines. To the Editor ot Thr Times. A fair price for leail aud fifteen cents per ounce advance on silver bids fair to build up the waste places in our mining districts caused by the depression of the last decade. ' Every night the flashing electric lights of this city muko a beautiful display to the dwellers on the heights of Bingham, (west mountain mining district.) Your correspondent for the last few days has been traversing tho old trails, (now overgrown with rose bushes and wild peas) and has noted tho signs of new life and a new era in tho mining industry. indus-try. Some of the old miners of fifteen years ago have stood by their claims through all tho dark days of tho past and the work they have accomplished in developing aud patenting their'pro-perties their'pro-perties must bo seen to bo appreciated. These are tho men, unnoticed and unheralded un-heralded even by newspaper puffs, who are laying foundations of material prosperity pros-perity in Utah. Many of them have grown gray iu this industrial war. It is reported that Stewart No. 1 mill and mines havo been sold to eastern investors in-vestors for $450,000. It is quite certain that new men are at the helm there. A big cavo from the surfarce interfered inter-fered with tho running of the mill for a few days following the Fourth and gave opportunity for another satisfactory clean up of gold. Tho mill and mines, however, are now in successful suc-cessful operation. Tilings aro getting lively iu tho "Old Reliable" now. The Niagara company have all the machinery machin-ery for their concentrating and Huntington Hunt-ington mills, with electric "plant on tho ground, and with 25 men in their employ, em-ploy, are driving matters day and night anil in !J0 days propose to have the mill in operation. On Saturday last, in one of the tunnels of the old Utah ; mine, the whole breast was of solid galena, averaging 60 per ceut. of lead and 22 ounces of silver per ton. The Miller mine, at the head of Highland canyon, shows a 20-foot vein of gold ore, averaging aver-aging fifteen dollars iu gold to the ton. First-class ore from a recent shipment of ore from tho Frisco mine, at tho head of Carr Fork, sampled $200 in silver, and second-class, $110, with about 20 per centof lead. Leasiugand bonding of mining properties in tht dis-trict dis-trict involving immediate development, give promise of great activity from this ou. Placer mining along tho water courses is increasing. Laggard olaim-holders olaim-holders aro commencing assessment assess-ment work on neglected locations, lo-cations, and sharp -eyes aro looking after chances for relocations. Buyers arc quietly sampling patented mines with an eye to purchase before prices take a jump ou the rising market.. The steady shippers through the dull past are adding to their developments and shipments, and the tramways and standard gauge railway are crowded with business. The York mine, at the head of Cottonwood gulch, has joined the long list of steady producer's and from all accounts will give good account of itself in tho coming months. On the northerly side of the precious metal bolt in which the producing miues of Bingham are located, there lies a well-defined zone of copper in varied forms of ore. Native copper is found near the surface along the belt. It is but a question of time when capital capi-tal will spy out the capacities of this promising belt and a Utah Anaconda will add its quota to the copper production produc-tion of the world. Tho mineral resources re-sources of Bingham are well nigh inex-haustable. inex-haustable. J F B |