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Show 120 WESTERN WILDS. 4,000 tons of ore. The early history of the Emma Mine now reads like a romance. Mr. J. B. Woodman had never wavered in his faith that the hill north of Little Cottonwood Caflon contained a rich de-posit. He had followed a narrow vein till his means were ex-hausted, without making a " strike." His faith was infectious, and one or two grocers in Salt Lake City furnished him on credit a hundred pounds of flour and some meat, which he and his partners carried up the cafion, wading through the snow. Before that pro-vision was exhausted, they came upon the upper part of the deposit, since known as the Emma Mine. In a month thereafter the most sanguine spoke of it as worth $ 40,000, whereat the many laughed. Every foot of additional development showed the ore- body to be greater, and the property was successively sold and stocked at higher prices. In September, 1872, after it had been sold in London, a gentleman familiar with the workings of the mine presented the fol-lowing exhibit : Depth of workings ....... 230 feet Breadth of workings 6 to 40 " Length of workings 475 " Cubic feet excavated ( about) 500,000 Tons of ore extracted 30,000 Tons of waste and third- class ore 15,000 Value of ore $ 2,500,000 | So small had been the expenses of working, on account of the loose nature of the ore, that $ 2,200,000 of this had been clear profit. The mine might honestly have been sold for $ 2,000,000. It was stocked at $ 5,000,000. The result was a failure to pay dividends on such a capital, a cessation of working, caving in of the mine, a disgraceful lawsuit, and an international scandal. The nation at large has little to ease the smart. In Utah we have one consolation: all the honest work on the mine was done by Gentile residents; all the fraud was perpetrated by men who live outside of Utah, some of them our worst enemies. But we have suffered most of the ill effects. A cloud was thrown upon Utah mines which delayed our progress for two years. In May I went to " Washington City, as agent for the Corinne Gen-tiles, and remained two months and a half. The next December and January I also spent in Washington on the same mission. We were without representation in any legislative body, and eur only recourse was to have an agent at Washington, who, besides being unofficial in character, had the constant hostility of the Mormon delegate in the |