Deseret Evening News | 1891-08-25 | Page 8 | Racy Notes from La Plata

ItAlY NOTTS FKIIH h PLATA. What An Ubirnlng rorrnpnoilrnl hair at Doe Miner. IMur HtKrit A'tuv leaving I.ocau about S.V) In the morning wo arrived at La Plata about five o'clock. As near na we could determine, de-termine, It li twenty-eight miles from I.osan by the routo w e took. The new arrivals are wilcomed with a hearty yill and hurrah by Iho mlmra. When I rrglatcred I bellevo mine was the three hundred and tight) ninth name. We are now on Harrl son Aveuuuaud Initio tontro nf Ihe street I n tall polo with the sure and strltxs Hying. About ten feet un la nailed u hoard nil which U IliKlllied: "Dagos and Chlnrae, sneak!" .Near ua la a largo tent aud jalnltd on ll Ihe sign la l.lltlu Heed Hotel." Aleut all tranche, of Lualmw. are now yeireaenlcl on n small scale. Taking a short stroll wo comu to la Plata A.cnuc, Ou olio side la thu Thatcher aud Halm. cam, nnd illrtttly opjioalte la the now famous J,a Plata mine. We vlalted the H indown mine owned by P. Wllaon, of Hrlgham City, aud J. Upham, tlio man that located the Anaconda, boar Ilutle, Montana. It la n ledge, aa far aaopeued, eight fiet wldu, comimaeil of a very rlui galena, and a sand carlion ale, lying side by side. I.xrluuccd men lay It la a II no ore rrmimt. Claims are being located on tho hllla for mllus around. U'jan I well re trcsLhted. Ueorge Thatclier, Mayor Hayms, Aaron Parr, Orsou Hmlth, 11. W. Hloan, U. D. Kullmer. aru there aa busy as bte. Hrlgham City luakea n good ahowlug. and Ogden eoplo are thero, 1 should JuiIkc, by the hundrcda. Halt 1-akera nru cjn, lait It la rejiorted that n comiouy la on the way. r. J. Iliwirrr. I.A Pi .ta, Cacho comity, Auguat dud, Ml.