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Show MINING NOTES. M Tho American Smelting & Refining H company, otherwise known ns the smelting trust, has filed articles of in- corporation with tho sccrotary of The twenty stamp mill at Ploche, owned by the Plooho Consolidated Mln- illH Ing company, was destroyed a fow days Hl ngoby fire, bcllovcd to bo Incendiary, B Loss, about 820,000. H Tho announcement was mado In H mining circles last week that a syndl- cntc of Denver and Cripple Creek cnpl- M tallsts had obtained n bond on the Copper King group of mlnos four miles H Word comes from Rox Rider county that nn Important strlko has been made In the property of tho Planetary Mln- H lug company, tho oro showing metallo vnlucs of fifteen ounces silver and 82C3 H in gold to the Tho directors of tho Raldy Mountain H Mining company held a meeting In H Castlo Palo Monday to accept tho prop- osltlon of ox-Senator Frank. J. Cannon and associates, to purchase tho mine' at tho rate of 70 cents a shore for th H With a capital stock of 870,000, in B ten cent shares, tho Hero Mining com- H pany has been organized In Salt Lake City, to develop tho Hero, April Fool, H Water, Sldo Hill, Old Dominion, Ex- H tension, Labor, Iron nnd Last Chanco, H mining claims, situated In tho south- western part of Iron county. Tho excitement over discoveries oi H immenso ledges of copper bearing ore on Antelope Island, in tho Great Sail H Lake, continues unabated and already M over 100 claims havo been located there and notices filed for record. Among .H tho locators thcro aro a largo number iH of prominent Salt Lako mining men and operators. 0. V. Ollmer, of Salt Lako City, has lH just marketed a carload of oro from H tho property of tho Iron and Silver H Consolidated company of Lincoln H county, Nevada. The oro is high-grade as it runs 30 per cent Id copper besides I fH carrying values in silver. At the pros- . f . -? rnt time Chicago people are negotiat- . , H lng for tho purchase of this mine. J, ;) H Word comes from the LaSalles that Peter McCourt, of Denver, has secured ' i' a bond on tho Julia Amazon and Laura -f claims for 810,000. Tho group was re' "Saaaal cently located by D. J. HunUman.who "aaB was grubstaked Inst fall by Prof. W. '?, II. Tlhbals and 0. E. Peyton, of Salt H Lako olty, who aro foaling highly 'H elated over tho way affairs aro shaping themselves as far as this venture Is con- A letter has been received at Salmon City, Idaho, from the party who left that placo on April 4 for the Ruffalo H Hump country In a flotboat. Thoy re- H port a very successful trip, having shot H all tho rapids without any difficulty H and landed at Mallcck raining camp, -iH twclvo miles south of the Hump, on CsaaH tho Salmon river, in forty hours run- H nlng time. H Samuel L. Adams, Jr., of St. doorgo, Vtaaaal was In tho Salt Lake market last week JillH with a twenty-ton shipment of high- H grado copper oro from tho Llttlo Gom "JH mine, about twenty miles south of the metropolis of Washington county. IH Mr. Adams Is putting In a smelter and tH will trnnsposo tho oro Into bullion at filH the mine and it will not bo long before T he will mako his first consignment of al copper matte to Salt Lako city. M It has been known for some time fl that placor gravol existed on Indian ( creek In Newton mlnlngdlstrlct, abovo Heaver, but it was not until recently M that an effort was made to determine the value of tho dirt. A few days ago, H however, sluices were put In on the property of the Rob Roy mlno and a , H nice cleanup of tho yellow metal was 'H the result, fire tests showing tho pros- enco of 830 to tho ton In gold In the H black sand. H Tho Galena Mining company, owninj M valuablo and promising property iu Heaver Lako district, Heaver county, now that tho recent assessment of hall a cent a share Is paid in, is arranging H to bogln aetlvo work In the develop- H ment of this mine, whloh is a pro- klal ducorofnheavysllver-load oroproduot, -all high in grade. The Galonn, nlthougt R but a prospect, has several bhlpmenti M to its credit nnd Is evidently tho mok. jH ing of a steady producer in the future. H Park City experienced a powder ex- rH plosion on the 18th ult., but fortunate- H ly no ono was Injured, tho damage con. 1; slstlngof thewrecklngof theold Wood- j side boarding house and the tcarlnp i up of the now grado being built up to j tho Slvcr King mine. The powdoi M was stored In an old tunnel opposite the boardlug houso and was being j used in tho construction of tho new grade. The cause of tho explosion li wrapped In mystery, JM Word comes from Marysvale that an important strike has been made In the property of the Wcdgo Mining com- M puny in tho Ilorso Heaven country, tin M lower tunnel having encountered M la-.go ledgo of tho precious metal In M which theio is a streak of quart! twenty inches la width la which then H Is free gold galore. It is believed that '' H In tho Wedge the ledge has been found M from which such rich pieces of float H Were broken to find their way down the gulch, the finders spending many M weeks to discover their origin H |