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Show Ij j COMES FROM THE EAST. f ' Waiting on Returns From Gold Plac- j, j ors in Siberia, i Willis McCornlck has returned to ' town after an absence of several ! tij months In the East, where he was suc- ) V cessful In the propagation of several h v mining enterprises and will remain Y several weeks the guest of his parents. V i Of his placer diggings In Siberia, Mr. f McCornlck says that while the war has n' drawn heavily upon the patriots of u ji that region, Manager Brown has suc- V ceeded In washing the auriferous con- K; tents from the usual volume of gravel, wf-l sluicing having continued until about two weeks ago, when the clean-up for "fl the season was begun. Of the sea- H son's earnings he expects to learn In !' a short time. Mr. McCornlck reports ,. (: the condition of the East a very proB- jjC) porous one, with not a little Inquiry for ii I opportunities held out by the diggings M of Utah, and In the Westward move- J) ment of capital It should certainly jj command Its share. |