| Show GALENA CITY LITTLE cottonwood i KANYON june 18 1870 adilor editor deseret news A few lines from this locality may be of interest to your readers and possibly a source of information to a few eighteen miles south bouth from salt lake city on the eastern slope of salt lake valley the rugged precipitous mountains break into a chasm down which flows over huge boulders a foaming stream fed and kept alive by innumerable smaller streams whose source can only be traced by the eye far up the sidey sides of the cliffs to the white capped peaks of the mountains above whose covering of snow seems to be eternal these immense snow fields under the influence of the sunio suns buns rays are gradually melting g an and d coursing their way down to the valley below to anally finally add their mite toward keeping up our grand reservoir the dead sea bea of america kanyon must have presented a very forbidding aspect to the plo pio pioneer neer but by dint of hard blows and unlimited energy ib ift was effected and the kanyon itself gradually opened until tonight to night from the point whence I 1 write can be seen the miners camp fire feet above the level of the sea and from one end to the other almost at every crook and turn in the road we meet with disgusted prospectors on foot making their way out of the diggins as rapidly aa as possible while teams loaded and empty pass and repass in rapid succession As a kind of key to the work above just at the entrance of the kanyon in a brush I 1 I 1 wicki up 1 long rows of black bottles stand conspicuously forth to be used I 1 should judge in getting up steam to make the heavy grade just by i and farther up the kanyon we pass another A short distance higher up we observe stakes driven along the side of a gentle declivity at regular intervals and on inquiry are informed that this is union city 21 at presen present tit it comprises one wall tent occupied by pros pec tors one meat market composed of hemlock boughs and a two horse wagon serving the double purpose of house and conveyance to its inmates to the right and left high upon up on the range can be seen the yellow dirt where the miners are gop taid side aide in se search arch of ore below where we stand at least five hundred feet immense snow fields spread out before the gaze while within the past half hour I 1 have walked over snow ten feet in depth and assisted a vehicle through a snow bank whose depth was such that it was impossible for the team to pass through from this you can form some idea of the altitude here and in addition the snow spoken of was on the south side of the hill higher up still in the heart of the mining region is situated galena city comprising some four log shanties a blacksmith sho bho shop and the IT neven never to lo be omitted whiskey sho shop 74 4 around a fire in idi front of the saloon 7 are are sitting the in miners iners talking over camp mess each apparently sanguine that he het is in possession of a fortune fortu un in extent and which only ye re quires developing al ah but theres theress uhel the rub will all the precious metal of little nittie boti koti cottonwood onwood payback dayback pay baek back iu in dollars and een cen cents s the original amount invested to develop it to say nothing of the co complete M demoralization in some bome cases and partial in others that the miners life undoubtedly brings 12 about ut the emma was the only leau that tro tre r was being taken from while in every direction as far as the eye could reach huge piles of earth attested the fact that money had bean been u used cd with a prodigal hand band without satisfactory result it is all wy enough to bay bas say kay that jessra eo so and so are taking out two thousand dollor per day which will probably yay edh a nett profit pro nil niu fil of two or three hundred but hov how hoz does that amount stand against ithe the of two hundred men who today to day are prospecting sinking shafts tunnel lin ling 1 and otherwise carrying forward the bu business siness of a mining district leaving out the th loss elosa of the labor of these men in building up a country and developing it agriculturally mechanically and otherwise possibly little cottonwood has furnished means to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars all told while as near as I 1 can get at the facts 40 ho less than one half a million has been expended to produce the former amount I 1 may be so constituted as not to be able to appreciate the true nature of the case but comy to my eyes and understanding it sums up aa as follows money to tb thea the amount of possibly fifty thousand shousan ad dol lars will be taken out in the next twelve month to obtain that the labor of two hundred stalwart men will be required which coupled with all other expenses will double treble yea quadruple ru le the amount produced yes but will I 1 not the digging of the ore give giveen employment to hands certainly erta n y at precisely the same wages that is given for dommon common labor all over the territory say from twenty to forty dollars per month will not the hauling of orb ore give employment to teams certainly to a limited extent it will there therb are plenty of farmers that will leave their farms unimproved their houses un built and their harvesting th unfinished fifi lilied for the sake of five dollars per par er day in cash which amount is ip no sooner earned than it finds its way into the mer chanty hands to be sent dent east for anew stock while mining may produce transitory prop prosperity perit the farmers and mechanics labor produces permanency to all laboring men I 1 would say keep away from the mining district there are men hera can employment to any one whose pockets are plethoric eie fic with wilh filthy lucre and who is hunting a lole bole hole hoie to hide it in no better place than little littie cottonwood can be found Num numerous erdus samples are to be found on every hand at least when you yon do conclude to invest take half your money and buy a lot to cultivate and though the hoppers were to eat you to the root thearin year in and year out you still made the best investment with wita this half of your money for you have your lot left while on the other othen hand a dismal looking hole is all tha hatla lis uis left to mark the spot where you hive have buried burled your dollars to the lover of natural scenery the kanyon abounds in beautiful sights its snow capped mountains and tour ing bluffs its pure crystal snow water an and lofty pines combine to make a scene most attractive J MORGAN J STATE of OP THE WEA by deseret telegraph line lifie june st george has been raining hard since 2 this morning mor mar ning still cloudy and has tho the appearance of more ilore storm parowan carowan Pa rowan very cloudy and looks like rain mi elli more cloudy and rather cool mount pleasant has been raining this morning and is still cloudy pay payson son cloudy and looks like ilke rain brigham cloudy raining a little and blo bio blowing wind wellsville cloudy looks like rain t in this city it has leen heen been clouding up fbi fo two or three days and there is every appearance pe arance of rain PE 7 haneys hanels for june hearth and home for june containing the first instalment installment of jethro ps night thoughts I 1 E every very saturday and the july number of Harpers ITar pets pers monthly have been laid on our table by bro james dwyer D er the enterprising proprietor of the radway railway news depot west side of east temple street where may also be obtained Disraeli ls new work lothair 11 also constantly on hand periodicals homo home and foreign and a larae large assortment of works of a literary scientific and apol educational character i |
