Show IN I THE HIGHLANDS Thc Jordan and South Galena Mines Highland Mary The evening of the 14th inst found your correspondent comfortably settled at the office of the Jordan mine Wherever and whenever I have been out on the road discussing the Utah question has always formed the chief part of the conversation con-versation with the ladies and gentlemen whom I have had the pleasure to meet Everybody has opinions on the matter and what is better they have intelligent intelli-gent comprehensive and patriot views on the affairs and condition of Utah and no class of people have broader and sounder views than those found in mining min-ing camps Prof Allen I soon discovered dis-covered was no exception to the majority major-ity unless it may be remarked he being be-ing an educated man expresses his ideas in more choice and stronger language To find in the recesses of these mountains moun-tains men of culture intellectual and moral is being an exception to the rule and a pleasing contrast to the sterner and rougher life encountered on every hand For this reason the evenings spent in company with the Professorwere hours of pleasure and profit to this wandering wan-dering Bohemian whose business brings him in direct contact with all shades of life exhibited in a mining camp Porf Allen is soon to be joined by his wife an educated and estimable lady who will makeas every good woman makes the rugged miners life and log cabina peace of rest and comfort out of the Professors Pro-fessors mountain home Anticipating Mrs Allens arrival TUB DEMOCRAT representative re-presentative wishes her a safe journey on the way to her husband and a pleasurable pleasura-ble enjoyable summer after she gets hereto here-to experiance for the first time the costumes cos-tumes of a mining camp in the mountains of the Far WestOn West-On the morning of the 25th Foreman Alex McMaster showed me through the South Galena mine In this property is to be seen an excellent showing of rich galena ore Within a few days since avery a-very rich ore body has been struck and the men as well as the company are crrrespondingly jubilant In this hole in the ground your representative found a bunch of good Democrats waiting wait-ing for his coming as though he were a misionary of the gospel conveying the glad tidings of great joy In the afternoon through the courtesy of Mr Wm Ross I went through the Jordan mine a property worked in connection con-nection with the Galena by the same company of which Prof L E Holden is the principal stockholder and Superintendent Superin-tendent In the Jordan there are immense im-mense bodies of ore in sight notwithstanding notwith-standing that the mine is being worked very near the surface What will be found when they conclude to sink down on her does not take a prophet to foretell fore-tell for the indications are that the now large body of wealth will increase in every direction At the two mines and the tenstamp mill now running to its utmost capatity there are engaged over sixty men who by their incomings and outgoings give to this region in the gulch an appearance of industry and business life HIGHLAND MARY Not in this city or town alone does one see all of the phenomena of human nature The man who traveles is sure to find beside the something or someone some-one blissful and dear as Moore puts it many unaccountable persons and things Up in this part of Bingham the country is called very appropriately The Highlands High-lands and in perfect keeping with the thought that highland suggests there is here a Mary not a Scotch one but a Scandinavian though in appearance action wit and spirit an Irish girl is she Were this Highland Mary but the owner of a mine there certainly would be a romantic appropriateness about her being where she is but as it is she is simply a waiter girl at the com panys boarding house and therefore deprived of that distinction for which romance ro-mance has fitted her Leaving Highland Mary to enjoy the mediocrity of her life and employment employ-ment your correspondent the morning of the 26th took up his line of march as it were for that region of Bingham known as the South Fork of Butterfield Canyon MILO ZIP I HIGHLAND March 26 1887 |