| Show mart of q As our columns columns AO W doted to the inalien of xiv news s they th ey ar are over ever open to both ade of any question in w which bich the public tire ore interested we therefore insert the following comma communication ni I 1 cation from a minor miner who desires that the true stat of the mines in in may ay bo be inov it and with nn an apparent desire to warn tho the unwary from falling into a trap which lim has s so BO frequently deterred tho the investment of espital in a right direction by the ex poso of what is known as n wild ild cat schemes abax march editor having noticed a number of extracts in conr paper from correspondents correspond corre spon dents and believing some of them imposition practiced on a bold and truthful journal as well as on a too credulous community at al large I 1 am constrained to give you some aonie facts in in relation to this country without commenting upon a communication copied into your paper from nn an eastern mining journal some time last fall wherein it was mas stated that tacio was 11 9 ore ro enough on the surface here to employ ono one thousand stamps for years that the writer expected to bo be talen out and shipping g oro ore to europe next sp rin az that would pay from one to five d dollars dollan per tou ton that among his own locations were ere the richest mines over ever found asthma As these statements arc too palpably absurd to require refutation I 1 will nill simply refer to an extract from a private letter in your weekly of the ad aust in which the sebastopol sevastopol Seba the ill mary try ann and other claims are highly eliud cd and the he five shimp mill represented to havo have produced one thousand pounds of silver in one week etc now the truth is the lodes referred to have not been touched in the last thi thieo co months nor is any anyone one acquainted with the oie ate in cither lole loilo eight feet feel below tho ilia surface of the ground As to the mill the entire gross gros proceeds proceed flom the samo same since it first started to the present time has not been sufficient to pay ivy the salary of one oie nun inan who icho tends the ihrk my of the ore this may not be attributable to tho the lack of ore in the mine the mill is a piece of botch w mork ork and the n orlin of the mine no less so as all may judge when it is known that the mine illinois lams has been worked six months by not less lesi than an average of eight men daily and yet not one ton ion of ore has been rained mined from a depth of thirty feet or taken from ft a tunnel that depth from the surface CTr face the fact is the mines are arc not managed managed ma by skillful men or else they aio restrained from doing the work properly by their employers who in all caves cases in this district know N cry little about conduct ing mining op operations cration it is now t W 0 years since these mines w ere discovered and yet no lodo lode has been prospected to the depth delith of fifty feet in one and not more than a half dozen to the depth of twenty wenty five feet the fault is in therefore we knor but little more of the mines than at the time of their discovery I 1 am led to make this statement for tho the following fol lowin reasons first the 11 permission to copy from a 1 private letter is a i cheap way for private inah duals ideals to advertise their feet wh cli ch will mill not im ud themselves and to say the least not profitable to the publishers who abo ire arc likely to reecho a the execrations exec rations of a majority of the community ity acquainted with mth the real alue aue of the he mines ines in question second these state ments induce hundreds to go to the locality aames where there may bo be three laborers to one employed as in this district only to be deceived loose their all and curse the authors and publishers for the giong inflicted third it works dvork an injury to the public and a prejudice against the best class of mines to which those herein named inay belong x when hen developed lev ley eloped and the inducement of capital to work the same wo we doubtless doubt lem lave have very valuable v 1 mines heie hale but as in all localities whelo rich lich mines ain AHU found the wildcat cat 1 l estare beet arc the first fint thrust into the market itt iff order to effect a sale early upon the reputation of the ilia better mines out of some 1700 claims located in hi this district it will nill be fortunate if one in a hundred proves rich to the owners and as many moro more bearly etive wo would N then han hae e perhaps the rich st locality of the same extent in the state parties desirous of vesting investing in nagat odines will do well to first visit this place aud and judge for themselves as there are al number jf f fine repasts cooking for fbi the unwary out of he che valueless val valt uless iless mines of which I 1 may hereafter give YOU yon an inkling |
