The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-10
MERcUR A WONDERFUL CAMP.
How Its Greatness Impressed Col
orado Man

The following, from the Denver Re
publican, although containing a few
erroneous impressions. is true in the
main, ANA illustrates how the great gold
camp of Msrcur strikes 0la average
Colorado capitalist and mining operator,
The Republican says:
Phillip Afixs1ii CT Idaho Springs has
just returned from 4 trip ID NeTcur,
Utah, where he went TO examine a niGl-
ing pT0Dsqty for eastern PARTIES. II
tllat camp was in Colorado" said he,
IT would have from 600 to $4,000 ps0-
pie in no time. 1t is q wonderfully
great camp and IS now producing large
ly. while the big milf Of the De Lamar
with capacity Of 800 toms per day has
not yet been completed. The 0Iercur is
the either great mill OF the camp with
800 tons per day capacity. Besides these
there are half a dozen others. some of
them buiht right at the mouth of the
shafts.
"As near as I can gather, the up
haa1al which caused the mineral ex-
porure occurred right in the middle of
the deposit and tllere is What is called
ard eastern and western dip. In the
western dSp the ore is a strictly cyanida
proposition. while on the eastern dip it
is more or less free milling With cyanide
treatrnsnc in the tatGings. Tho mlLts are
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values. The ore is found in the lime
and is the easiest handled that I ever
saw. The cyanide solution is very weak
ami takes up the gold very rapidly. Tha
cnly objection is the occasional presence
of arsenic. which I am told has been
overcome in the treatment of THE cre.
Il is crushed with Gates cTusrl5rs only
to the size of from hickory Tlu1G to wal
nuts and dissnteSrated almost inl-
water. was told that the cIte can be
ieac1ed With pure water alone, and 40
per cent of the values pTecipl,taGel. 1t
is one Of the camps that are raYiela-
ton in mining to ntGerJ accustomed
emily to the ores of Colorado, as much
SO as our sEIlphide ores are 10 them
THE MercuT Mill is bui4t at the foot
Of the hiA. four miles from MeTcur ON
the railroad from Salt Lake to ihe lat
ter place. the branch being Is miles
long. The road ig crowded width bust
ness and IS running night and day maui
ing ore to the MeTorT NH. 1t is a
standard gauge hils. and the engines
ara bGItlt vita the bcTeTy on one side
and three Ei.le upright engines as the
motive power. The driving whstsls are
but little larger than the wheels of a
Pullman coach, but thsy do the work.
though tha trains run very SLOWLY.
TNeye are 300 tons Of ore that must be
handled daily. and the other ores that
are shipped ouL run the business of the
camp 10 to about GOO tons a day.
White I was thare I met a Colorado
man named Corey. who used 10 be ait
SilVertoa. He is now managing the
Gladstone mime W1aach is one OF the
baSt equiDped mines ever saw The
people there are very glad to have Colo
rado people come there. and were very
kind and hoSpitable to me. They adj
nlire the methods and energy of this
state, especially the manner in wGlich
tala Republican keeps up the mining
interests Of the state. 1t is in every
respect one Of the busiest and most
prosperous camps have ever seen, and
was something new TO me TO hear the
rumble of the cars, ana the rattllng Of
the ore down the chutes every time I
awoie in the night. The De Lamar m.tl
has ail the standing steel in position
and VIII be completed in TWO or three
months"
Mr.. Mixsell goes to Telluride in a few
days TO examine property and tllsn to
NinnemucR, New. on the same bust
ness,