Show THE SOUTH notes and points from frisco star and our correspondent headed for home yesterday was payday pay day and al though nothing unusual was dig niblo on the surface there was a quiet but soli i transfer of dollars in great profusion going on bere and there a miner who ha viewed the wine when it was ruddy with a persistency characteristic of that class monopolizes the sidewalk in his vicinity and make a maudlin hostile demonstration otherwise everything today to day aas quiet as though it were sunday and this not a mining camp the saloons or a majority of them were open all night and many a stalwart DELVES TREASURE emerged from hh doors abi a morning as destitute of money 03 he was before receiving his check gambling is one of the vices of the town not that it is a peculiarity with frisco but the evil seems to be carried on to a greater extent liere than elsewhere in proportion to numbers but its all in a life the average miner and mining camp man are not addicted to despondency on account of future possibilities they crowd their troubles into the realms of the present filling tho future with CREAMS and golden prospects carpe is their motto and they act up to it in its fullest sense A more variegated congregation of men was perhaps never called together within the same time on the pacific coast there are boys who ought to be in school taking their chances with the older heads on leads prospects and so on and gray haired veterans who have gone the rounds of california nevada and montana men who have been able at various times to give the boys a lift whenever called upon and now find themselves in corner of utah mon eyles but with hopes which only declining years have made less buoyant still confident that their strang card will yet bo turned and minding as freely with the practices and peculiarities of the younger clement as when their own hair was by abo rows of the many bitter winters through which they have passed since set ting foot upon the uncertain soil the minina regions of the far west all ages all temperatures all con editions in life A but real one the of mountains immediately wet of frisco intervening between it and the wah wah valley is generally considered and upon excellent grounds to bo the ama in cornita beneath which reposes LODE it is nearly all taken up on both aidea and wherever a pick has been struck ore has been found amounting to more or less as to quantity and qu alit but ore of some description notwithstanding the great horn silver almost a corn stock in and of itself is situated near tha pass some three miles to the south which leads to the valley beyond near it is the grampton Gram pion almost as large and valuable while other developments of greater orles orless s importance loom up at various points them the dives not far from the above two aba range takes the form of a crescent frisco being situate about midway of the convex side and to tha north of the town some two and a half miles on a detached spur of he range is another valuable and mine TUB this property is the only one in the district which employs hoisting works and the shaft is down some 50 feet the ore is high grade and in large quantity the mine i the property of the frisco mining and company on the western side of the mountains arc the cerrogordo Cerro Gordo anil yellow jacket already spoken of while other and valuable locations are quito numerous too numerous for special mention unless a month were devoted to the task all of this indicates the correctness of the conclusion above reacted that a corn stock exists in the everlasting hills which overlook the town from alie west not only this district lut star also w yielding material evidences of richness and permanency A few years ago the latter was almost entirely abandoned lead was cheap and the ores yielded an abundance abunda nse that article besides transportation was BO high as to exclude the the list of exhortations exportations but the railroad is close at hand and with ita approach and the advance in lead old claims bavo sprung into renewed lidd and owners are confident that the DAY OP is at hand among the claims which might thus be enumerated I will mention the hidden treasure osccola searles group in the foothills the harrisburg empire wild bill savage and lake superior more than forty men are constantly employed in the work of rey iral and the prospects are pronounced superior to anything the camp has yet known this is saying ft great deal when it is considered that this star was once a bright and shining light in the galaxy ot wealth producing districts and except two is the oldest one abtin DISTRICT consists of a compact group bains from oat the basin that contains frisco at its western border eastern and lincoln and bradshaw on the oust while its northern extremity terminates at promontory on the north side of great salt lake the star mountains are detached from and independent of their surround ings like an ege in a soup plate they arc full of minerals and at this time ortho year mr J aloi artion er tion county nse asor and collector anil mr V II 11 clay ton county school superintendent arrived on business connected with offices frisco yields considerable of the countes coun tys revenue and h steadily increasing itai contribution a this will probably be my last day here and inthe stage banot aguin detained ly the bad roads the next rising of the im will find me TV ann BOL NU I have taken copious nolia beroa boat to bo elaborated hereafter for the column of the points in relation to mines and mining towns and people industries and en rail and other roada and eo on ad infinitum march K |