Show mym tm SALT BALT lare LAKE CITY july 1 1870 editor news in accordance with the expressed wish of the public generally I 1 give through your columns the true statistics of the mining interest of little cottonwood starting out with tile the proposition that judging from the geological as well as mineralogical miner form of the great basin that forms the territory of 0 U tah tab it is utterly and physically impossible possible that gold or silver sliver can exist beere herein in any great quantities the mining interest to the contrary notwithstanding this portion of our common country must at some bome period of its existence 18 tence tenee have been one vast of molten matter for illustration suppose retake we take a quantity of the ore taken from cottonwood and reduce it to a liquid state we find that its ingredients are gold gold silver lead iron copper ac gold and silver bliver being precipitate in their nature we hav have e as a result the outer edges the cre ere crevices vicO and distant portions of our boiling pot or filled and encrusted with the two last named precious metals while lead iron and copper find a resting place nearer the center now in my judge ment utah has been in the past one vast boiling pot and from its center has been driven by their own force gold and silver and they have found a lodgment in the gulches and crevices of nevada colorado montana wyoming and idaho while in our midst have been left the by far most precious metals in the shape of iron lead copper etc in proof of the above gold and silver can be found in a lateral position to to utah on every hand showing evidently and plainly the forcing process that has left our territory Verri herni tory in a manner destitute of the last named metals men argue that if mol Mor montana tana nevada idaho arizona and wyoming are gold and silver sliver producing why not utah A moments thought coupled with a little information in regard to the geology geological deai deal formation of the roc roe rocky bocky ky mountains and especially of this portion of the country should convince any reasoning mind that my position is the true one and if any doubts existed yet in regard to their nonexistence non existence the repeated failures of mining efforts are sufficient to convince the most skeptical leaving out the failure of little cottonwood the most complete of all the nearest to nothing the most barefaced of all the lottery schemes that have forced their way into public notice through the influence of speculating claim owners who trust to reap a golden goiden harvest by sale of feet that contains what every other canon canlon gulch and mountain side in all utah contain ie lead and iron by the simplest pro cess imaginable i we may ascertain that gold and silver sliver do not exist in paying quantities even in the far famed I 1 emma 11 lade take ore from the paying districts of 0 Net nevada vada yada and in a pulverized state with the naked nake deye eye the silver can be discovered this ore assays essays 54 to the toni tonj ton while from the emma ore in a pulverized state we can only discover the faintest stain the predominant ingredients proving themselves to be lead and iron still cottonwood ore is valued at per ton why I 1 am unable to say unless for reasons previously mentioned avery A very nice sugar bugar coated for fon the good folks of utah to swallow in the shape of mining statistics was published recently in your local columns to the effect that mining in little cottonwood had mth in the shape of teaming iday aday labor labon land in the purchase of goods but the stat stati ician clan whoever he may have been dare not give the figures as to whether mining paid or no but sim bim simply ly contended contented contended himself with a nice latue little to keep attention from the real facts of the case at issue whether or r no cottonwood mines pay I 1 propose to be as fair as fair can be in the following table of statistics which I 1 have gathered from reliable sources and from disinterested disinterest pO parties we will laya lay aside side the vast amount of means meant heretofore sunk in endeavoring to develop the bifid mineral ral rai resources of little cottonwood and only give the true cost that the owners of the best paying lodsin lode iode in the kanyon have been to place tons inthe in the iii market arket and we will take their valuation of it their figures a as regards the cost mt of mining their figures as to cost of shipping their figures as to cost df separating etc and then submit to what the figures ures mhd show to wio be the real facts facts and figures are stubborn things id to deal with as will probably be ascertained by those interested in claims in cottonwood elethy ere they finish jake J take it for granted that tons of ore have been shi shipped ped and sold we find that the f following 0 lip ow I 1 ag table of expenditures shows shown what the cost amounts to tunneling and shafting 00 board of hands 12 mo 5 4 00 raising ore from shaft 1200 00 teaming 12 00 0 00 freight 00 cost of sacks and sacking 00 drayage and handling 00 smelting smelling Sm elting separating etc 24 M 00 tools 1000 00 incidental expenses 1000 00 total cost of tons of ore 67 00 valued at per ton 00 loss on above amount 7 00 I 1 should judge that it would not be long before another 30 feet or one sixth portion would have to be sold to keep the machine work in motion little cottonwood mining claims may be valued at but it seems to me the more one is possessed of the tho worse he is off and to judge from the above it is nr not the amount of money made but like the old lady at the apple stand selling below cost it is tile the amount of business done that sustains cottonwood all hail hall and farewell to 0 the once grand and brilliant prospects of thelast the vast army of great expectation capitalists to the half million claims that studded the rough and jagged cliffs of little cottonwood and to the financial prospects of those who in their minds eye dwellen dw ellin marble halls and whose plethoric pe bags of gold and silver ri in weight and dimensions the expected possessions of jno law of south sea notoriety the figures I 1 have given are only partial at k the proper time the finishing report of this nice little mining operation will be gone through with for the edification of all concerned one more item I 1 take it for granted that a one sixth of the leading lode has been disposed of for consequently the entire claim must be ed at which is the amount the company have invested in the business at the present writing as I 1 am informed that that amount has been offered for it interest on at 12 per cent for twelve months amount to the pleasant little sum of thus it can be readily seen that the possessor of a claim valued at loses that amount of interest annually sp so long as his money is so invested I 1 have not in the foregoing statistics taken into consideration the repeated failures of previous efforts made to develop the resources of the cannon canion but simply dimply their best paying lode paying no attention to deserted tun tunnels nels neis shafts smelling smelting sm elting works ac that line th the canon nor to that other side of the picture that presents to out view men bio broken kenin in spirit reckless through disappointment careless of the comforts of home and its associations and brought to this condition by the wild mania for mining that at present exists to some extent in our midst but which I 1 am thankful to see rapidly dying out let met resident citizens and thinking men generally take fake earnestly into consideration the true nature of the question at issue iesue the mines have in the past as they millin will in the future proven a failure and only for the report of interested parties would today to day be practically abandoned shall wet we then allow these few to open the door for the influx Int into pour bour our midst of all the vile scum athas th been washed through the social sewers of or the entire west throwing our own hearth stones within the reach of the usual influence of a mining region of which cottonwood dod is a fair sample any commodity I 1 care nob not what it is always finds its awn market A A grain consuming town is filled with grain a cotton consuming town with cotton a wool wooi consuming town with wool and a whisky consuming town with whisky six ix whisky shops to supply the wants of men is certainly the best commentary that can be found on the morals of little littie cottonwood no need to say anything more in relation to the matter that of itself is prima facia evidence sufficient without further testimony are our citizens anxious to fill every canon canlon with such material if so allow to abroad the fictitious reports of unlimited mineral wealth and the work will go bravely forward let the floating population of the surrounding territories once come to the conclusion that utah is possessed of great mineral wealth in the shape of gold and silver and the eyes of the quiet sober citizen of utah will be greeted with a repetition of washoe reese beese river elver salmon river sweetwater white pine and stampedes our young men will have held before their eyes the dazzling temptation of suddenly ac ae quiren wealth which unfits them for the true work of life renders them useless members of society and binds their hands bands for all future good while in exchange for the above we ve obtain only the information that is self evident that utah mines will wil 1 not pay the past is an unsealed book that the most ignorant can peruse and it is 8 filled with the record of failure after failure and disappointment after disappointment in the endeavor to develop gold and silver in our territory its pages are repete replete with wise and sage counsel to the thoughtless and with words of wisdom to to those who today to day have gone mad over the wild of the brain that urges them on to renewed efforts with only failure staring them in the face with the evidence before them of broken fortunes ruined health and morals contaminated of the many who have preceded them in this wild will ol 01 0 the wisp chase for gold the workshop no longer presents attractions its cheerful walls are now ark dark and gloomy in comparison to the tow towering er imagination of the millions that are hid away in id the bowels of the earth the humble cottage no longer retains its freshness and beauty but bat has become insignificant and contemptible in comparison with the stately halls and gilded cornice of the future the daily toil toll hns haa become irksome and wearying to the mind an and d body in contemplation of the ease and leisure to be purchased in the future by the untold riches that fortune is ready to pour into his hands bands strange and astonishing delusion that thus holds within its meshes those whom we consider sound in judgment otherwise this is a subject well weli worthy the consideration of our citizens look around you reader arid and know for yourself whether or no my words come to you with a meaning the ruined dismantled wrecks in human shape that we meet everyday are solemn testimonies t ti to us of the danger we must needs pass through and of the shoals upon which they were cast away let us not by the encouragement of a certain class of emigrants open the way for those we hold most near and dear the youth of our common country to follow in their footsteps there Is is a work for every one to do and let no idle hands be found but let the true mining statistics of the territory be made public let all know what has been the result of mining heretofore both financially and morally let our young men be convinced of the actual state of affairs and then we shall have our workshops alive with the busby bussy hum of business we shall have a currency that will build up our country that williet tle the waste and arid spots of the desert and cause them to td bloom and blossom as therose the rose mother earth will teem with the choicest fruits of the field and the vineyard there will be no more imaginary castles in the air and the vine em bowered cottage will be bp the heaven on earth that the working man deserves respectfully J MORGAN |