Show 1 communicated eo G toon too N N T nov 20 VL ydea DECrE re being at 1 this place for a few days I 1 write perhaps it W would be interesting to fo jou yon and ift a lillin number ber of your readers about camp douglas I 1 left captain smith and his command on oil the morning of the instant at the and all was well up tip to that time t we encountered considerable snow and very cold weather in crossing the goose creek mountains aside from that jye 4 e had b ad very good weather andr and Y think af it still fill continues so up to the present date I 1 was sent from humboldt wells up to fort ruby with our election returns we held an election on goose creek everything passing off smoothly anti and quietly and I 1 am proud to say we p polled votes for abraham lincoln and not one vote with a blot or scratch en cra it our commanding officers were highly so pleased over this that they took a smile I 1 was tempted tematea to smile and the men all smiled in coming to fort ruby I 1 got a permit 17 to run over and sea fee egan cm cison ion Rs as that is the place where our treas dri e lie I 1 found the cian 1 right ig ht where it was last spring when I 1 left it but considerably changed appearance at the head of the car canon ion is a town called I erina it has haa about twenty houses in ill it built of wood and a dobes and most of of them have a very neat deat and respectable appearance there ther are arc some six or eight families i in n it b but it t no public house or restaurant where it traveler or a hungry miner could get his grub ab 17 there is no store of any consequence either which is a gret great drawback for there are a few individuals here who would buy something but I 1 suppose all of these conveniences will be furnished for cash early in the spring you must remember that this place is young yet only a i little over A old and it cuu call walk by next summer it will run that is I 1 mean the people will be running here but what wh at allures them thein on here is the rich silver ledges I 1 am pretty well acquainted with this place and have bare been here at times from the first discor discovery ery and I 1 give you and all who way inay read this my word as s a gentleman anda and a man of truth that egan cadion cabon or gold carion canon mining minim district 1 is no hoax neither is the rich silver ledges any hoax boax I 1 tell you I 1 have seen it 11 s out of the ground all over these hills J will kive give you some of the most prominent lodes at present TW the gilligan stands first yet there is a shaft feet jeep on the ledge lede at that depth it is about eight feet wide with a no I 1 rock the siope has a shaft sunk sixty feet the lodge about two feet wide with the rich richest t roer now HOW known the jenny lind hind has a abaft forty fat deep 1 ledge dge about wee three feet wide and very rich rock there are parties 1 at work on the smith eagle antisavage and andi savaged Savage 7 lodes lodea they are from twelve tb fifteen feet on the lodges ledges es which are proving very rich it is id thought that hat f the I savage lode will prove the richest in the canon the gold janon or oro final discovery claim cla im is in very very rich in gold axy M advice to owners ina in the above named ledges is to hold on to your feet fc et and da d not lart with them for it ii song gong the money that you way may be required to working them will not be thrown away but iu iii it a shora time it will wih bring br ilg youia eum I 1 do not doubt that tape art ar plenty of a as 4 good ledges as tk the ones 1 have men tiou rid but I 1 have not see seen R them have not been prospected and I 1 would biot w aay V one to puya buya piece of ro rock ck sticking out of the gr ground azud bettt bot tt latea late A of a ledat lM tw jally JM lly WV 41 ro afa ca catam etain bosn to qu Quinn which is proving to ba i bench rich i t i i 1 would advise any good enterer enterprising sa ahead kind of a man to energetic go come cocio to egan canon spring whether lie ho has capi capital atal or not gome come on you can find so illeth in g to ta do and cometh something I 1 ng that will pay and to men of ef capital I 1 would say invest in in property or stock of some kind at ea egan M canon you will ivill certainly b have ave largo large profits a and nd quick returns but lazy lounging loafers and bummers need not come as they could not make an honest living and besides they would give the place a bad name I 1 w want tint no one to come to this place with the expectation of malting making a fortune in ill a few montha months it will take years perhaps but it is here and by industry and e economy conomy any man can make i u ake his fortuno fortune pi in a few years this is my honest 0 opinion pill ion of the E egan gan canon silver mines I 1 leave here in a day or two to rejoin my company at tort fort churchill arid from thence to camp union california where I 1 expect to remain this winter and where I 1 will over ever hail with pleasure the UNION as the grand pioneer of utah in ida installing talling a now new principle and changing the views and people of that territory you must excuse this short epistle tl and if agreeable to all parties you shall hear from me again when I 1 arri arrive ve at camp union until then I 1 remain I 1 yours with respect FRANK |