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Show MINING NOTES. A strlko of an eight Inch vein of ore, sheeted with gold, Is reported from Ileddlng, Missta county, California. The Undo Sam and tho Humbug, In Payson Canyon, will be vigorously worked during tho sesson, and some good shipments aro expected The Colorado river Is a perfect storehouse store-house of gold and It looks as If this sectton would witness another stampede stam-pede before the sesson Is much further advanced. Mineral, Idaho, Is taking on a lively air as the smelter started Wednesday morning with a forco of fifty men, whllo ten six horso tesms are kept busy hauling coke for the smelter. The gasoline hoist for the Fremont mine at Diamond has been received nt Silver City, and will soon bo hauled to tho mlno and put In place ond In operation. oper-ation. The hoist house Is all ready fur tho paint. Tho Carbonate Hill mlno, a new Morgan county bonanza, was In the market last week with a shipment, and It Is promls'd.that tho mine will make an excelUnt record this summer as a regular and heavy shipper. The Sedalla Coppermine, one of the richest copper mines In the United States, located about two miles and a half from Sallda, Colo , was sold on March Oth to llostou and New York parties for a consideration of too, 000. Whllo cleaning out and putting In shape for future operation a shaft on the property of tho South Sunbeam Mining company at Sliver City, that was abandoned twenty-three years ago, the mauagement has encountered natlva copper, and further develop-ments develop-ments " omlse most sensational dls-closu dls-closu The urgrst shipment of silver bullion bul-lion ever mado out of Anaconda was sent east last week over the Great Northern express by tho Ansconda Copper Mining company There were ninety-one bars of the white metal, valued at 8 K),000 or thereabouts. It took to largo drays to haul It from the works to the depot where It was loaded on cars. A sheriffs died, conveying the Ozok crlto claims of the Ozokerite Mining company, sttustcd mar P. V Junction, toll J Kroupa, the Provo sttater, was filed for record last week. The properly was bought by Mr. Kroupa at sheriffs sale six months ago for 83,200, on a Judgment against tbs com pany In fsvor of Mr. Kroupa. Mr. Kroupa sued the compsny for services as superintendent of the mines. "$ Ilobcrt C. (lemmell, M. 1- and a K., the governors appointee for tho Im portant position of state engineer. Is one of the best known mining engineers engin-eers In Utah and Nevada, as ho has been tho chief of Captain J. U. Do Lamar s stall for a number of years, and has done the surveying necessitated In the development of the Do Lamar and Golden Gate mines, two of tho great est gold producers In this Inter mountain moun-tain rtglon. There Is an awakening of Interest In mining In tho southern part of the state and Iron county, with Its very promising mineral resources, Is now receiving more attention at the hsntls of mining men and Investors thsn ever before, copper and gold being the metal roost sought fur, although there aro soma very fine lead properties at different points, which will undoubtedly undoubt-edly bo more extensively operated and developed In tho near future. At the Stickle mlno In Calavaras county, Oil , two miners, named Oris Ilronzlch and Joseph Itagglo, had charged a series of holes and were splitting the fuse when one of the blasts went off prematurely, knocking both down Ilronzlch lay unconscious with his leg broken, and Ilsgglo had one arm broken It was a matter of but a few seconds before the other blast would go off, but Itagglo stopped to rcscuo his senseless coinpsnton. Though with one arm disabled, he managed to drag the prostrate man Into a drift, whero they were safe. Some fine samples of gold quarts are being displayed by a Ilutte miner, taken from his claims on Snake river, In Illngham county, Idaho. The mine from whence It came Is ninety miles from the Oregon Short Line, but Is very rich. Native gold can be seen In tho rock with the naked eye. The lead at the cropptnga was two fret wide, and has spread out as depth waa gained In the workings, which Is through a shaft now down fifty feet. The owners are spending all their money on the developing devel-oping of several claims which promise good returns some day. Quito an excitement has struck Price and vicinity over the recent copper discoveries east of there and in the Cedar mountains southeast. It Is only about seventy-five miles from Price to the new diggings, and outfits are leaving leav-ing for that part of the country, and others bringing In samples about every day. Prom samples brought hero within the past few days It looks as If a year's ttmo will show that eastern Utah can vie successfully with tho Mercur district ou the copper proposition. |