The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-18

Mercur. June IA quantity OF
Chloride Point ore has been sent TO
Denver to be tested. Some party there
claims TO have a process, as CHEAP as
the cyanide process, that will save 20
per cent of the gold and silver AS the
best results obtained so far in Mercur
are from so TO 81 per cent. the COM
pany has considered the matter worth
investigating. At the same time. d
careful study OF the different processes
is being made, and as soon as it is de-
ternined which is the best, work on
the mill viii be commenced. The com
panv hopes to get started soon, as the
mill must be completed and running be-
fore the end of summer.
Mr.. Weigel Of the Gladstone was in
town the other day and paid up all the
bills OF the company. 1t was Ihoushl
best TO temporarily suspend work on
the shaft until the arrival of the steam
hoist, which will be here before the
end of the month, as the shaft Is get
ting too deep TO be worked successfully
with a whim, the depth now being go
feet The men are now at work on Inc
Brooklyn.
Work on the Vanderbilt ground has
again commenced. and four men are
at present employed. Mr. Merrill says
he will put on more hands in short
time.
Rumors in relation to the Golden
Gate are filling the air these days. but
which one of them is correct your cor
respondent is as yet unable TO say one,
rumor IS to the effect that CAPTAIN De
N4amar has sold out 90 European
syndicate, and that his getting an OPP
ton on the Brickyard was for the pur-
nose of uniting il with the Golden Gate
to make the latter sell This was the
explanation given by the same parties
about the Mercur deal. Another and
more plausible theory is that before
erecting a mill, De Lamar wanted to
get more ground For that reason he
flrst tried the Mercur.
In the Brickyard, however, he knew
he had a good property, although not
developed. and finding the price suit
able, he obtained bond on the prop
erty, and on his arrival will close the
deal and proceed to erect the much
talked-of mill.
The only thing that persons employed
by the company can be induced TO say
is. There is a big hen on, but we are
not prepared to say anything, and don't
know really what is going on" One
SulIlS - Gel ldllls DIS III SOlllC way II HdS
been rumored that a big change is
about TO take place in relation TO the
Golden Gate, and there is rise in
real estate in consequence.
At the La Cigale the buildings are
being rapidly pushed ahead, nearly all
the foundation work is completed and
the heavy machinery is being put in
place as rapidly as possible and the
buildings being built around and on
them. The assay office is completed
and the finishing work in the inside is
going ahead, While the side walls of
the boiler room are UP and the work
of enclosing the engine room is in
progress.
AT the Mercur, although the amount
of ore mined has been increased, there
are fewer hands at work. Most of the
ore is taken from the outside cut
where there was not supposed to be
any short time ago. The surface
ground is taken off by team and scrap
er, and the balance quarried. Good
values are thus obtained, and a man
can break great deal of ore. No en-
CINE is needed to do any hosting, and
there is nothing left 10 timber Mining
is a profitable business when a large
body of ore is in sight with no hanging
wall but the sky.
The ore body is increasing and it
looks as if the whole Mercur hill would
is worked out.
About a hundred excursionists went /
to Provo to see the circus, and quite a |
number of them failed to catch the /
train in the evening. being compelled /
10 stay in the Garden city over night. /
The body of Tommy Samuels, who !
was killed by an explosion of giant |
powder Sunday, was taken TO ScofeId |
for burial on Monday
a number of parties who svnnna- !
thized with Bunker, who was sent to /
Jail so days for assaulting a little girl. /
may be interested to know that Mrs /
Brunker has written a letter saving /
that she was left destitute in Amer !
lean Fork, with four children to sup
port. by her husband, who left here
with the industrial army. Since that
time she has received in all $50. and |
mas Deen as much as two years without |
nearing from him. She further states
tnat IN the nine years she lived with
MN, ne was drunkard and gambler. (
A letter from the justice OF the peace
at American Fork corroborates her
story She was not aware he was in
Mercur 1t is a waste of sympathy TO
bestoW II on such a man.
The theatre and dance season has
gone by, but ice cream and strawberry
festivals nave come in their place. The
Rathbone Sisters gave one last Satur-
day which was social and financial
success, and this week the Union
church Will give festival for the hen
Eft of the church