Show I BINGHAM BO fCET No Boom BuFLots of Prospecting Bering Be-ring Done What is Going On at the Mines and I Mills A Town Without a Pastor or a Court of Justice Bingham is not booming Booming days are bygone days in the west and L there is nothing to lead us to hope for a L repetition of a White Pine excitement or a Black Hills stnmpede The lively times I and scene 1KOSE GOLDEN DAYS WH never be witnessed again they are of the past only Yet such camps as this one will be prosperous and continue to reward many a patient toiling miner i for the picking and delving he has done In talking with prospectors here your correspondent learned that many of them were still hopeful New prospects are I being opened continuously and a good deal of prospecting is being done Cap ital is what is wanted in Bingham and there is nothing to discourage monied men from investing in property in the Oquirrh Mountains PAYING MINES Are being worked here the largest being the Brooklyn which is a location on a contjnued ledge of the once famous Old Telegraph This mine employs about 100 men eiorhtv of whom are working I under ground The minesaid tobe the deepest Utlhis sunk to a depth of iOt O feet and shipping big quantities quanti-ties of valuable ore THE TIEWAUKEE AND YOSEMITE Are hoisting considerable of paying dirt many men are doing well with leases on several smaller claims and it is confidentially confiden-tially expected that the summer will he a prosperous one There arQ NINE MILLS In the district three ofwhich are running run-ning now amid three more are preparing to start up There are also several jig gers working and altogether without creating any excitement Bingham is contributing its share of wealth to the country and making respectable returns to those who have money invested It is at this season of the year that men get restless After the long confinement of winter is broken by the return of warm spring the miners crave for a change of I location and climate and they strike out for other camps This uneasiness is called THE FOOT ITCH I And many of the Bingham diggers have it and are going to Idaho and Montana Their places will doubtless be taken by men coming from those Territories and whose feet are itching to be on the tramp Bingham boasts of one thing that is in deed remarkable for even a mining camp It has neither court nor church TIlE LAW AND THE GOSPEL Having closed their canons and departed The ministers amen and the judges silence in court are heard no more It is not quite clear why ministerial efforts should have been suspended but there is a valid reason for tl J the judiciary having permanently adjourned Brief told it is as follows Notwithstanding that the camp pays its taxes which are by no means meagre the county has made no effort to build a jail though petitioned to do so time after time Consequently there being no place in which to confine the lawless they have hitherto been sent to Salt Lake theexpenses of their trans portations being paid by private dona tions from the business men glad to have the community KID OF HARD CHARACTERS But this thing got to be a burden and men paying taxes became unwilling and unable to keep it up so the justice and constable resigned their commissions and the pas tor having flown to other flocks Bing ham is left without legal protection or spiritual guidance Just imagine a town without power to catch a thief or the means of grace to save a sinner 1 And this state of affairs exists in a town with in thirty miles of Salt Lake City but officers elected by the Peoples Party have the control of this matter and that settles it Not withstanding this unpleasant un-pleasant position of affairs a great in justice the lawabiding and respecta ble citizens of Bingham the camp is or derly now everything moving along without a r < vlrv rinnla On the 15th lust there is to be A GRAND MASQUERADE At the Social Hall on which occasion < the festive fortune seeker will trip the light fantastic with the giddy maidens of the Oquirrh range Olsons band will be in attendance A HEARTLESS LANDLORD Your correspondent availing himself of the only opportunity to ride from the D I R G Junction to Sandy station jumped on board of a traveling meat shop which conveyed him to a shanty plac arded hotel Asking for a room he was shown to what in the dark might be taken for a cottage and assigned a bed or an old lounge Coarse unclean blankets were substituted for sheets but on in spection the DEMOCRAT representative was not so sure he had the most of it as another victim was sleeping between what WAS ONCE CLEAN AND DECENT This mornincr a cold biscuit fnir noffim a horrid round stake unfitb eaten H and a couple of boiled eggs were set for breakfast The bill for this accommoda tion the host had the gall to say was 1 notwithstanding the cost of meals and beds are painted on the door at twenty five cents The proprietor complained of poor business no wonder at it and the sooner he gives it up and goes to herding sheep or making adobes the better for a suffering public MILOZIP I April i 1885 |