The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-31
Mercur Mercury Notes.

/ E. E. Crooks of the Northern Light
paid the property a visit on Tuesday
and is better pleased than ever with
his holdings in that property. He re-
ports two shifts of boilermakers busily
at work putting in the new tanks. Four
new ones are now completed and in
/ operation and three more will be ready
next week Then all are completed
there will be 20 lotion tanks, four 40
/ ton and six Bottom, making a total ca
pacity of LAO tons. In order to ex-
tract all of the silver each tank will
be allowed to leach u days, which will
give a total daily capacity of about $50
tons. When it is known that the COM
pany has been more than paying ex-
penses with six Bottom tanks it will be
seen that the prospect for fat dividends
are good. The new tankroom, 64x109
feet, is completed and is a solid, sub
stantial structure. The company ex-
poets to be able to pay its first dividend
by October or November. Mr.. Crooks
reports the mine TO be improving every
day, with a gradually increasing force
of men at work. It is the intention to
push the Woodruff tunnel ahead and
connect il with the main workings.
The arsenical vein in the Wonder
was tapped Monday. 1t was reached
by a drift from the 600 level. 800 feet
long, run in an almost due east course.
The vein is seven feet through where
it was cut aid carries some arsenI and
sulphur. When the shaft passed
through this vein it went through a
lime horse, as no such ground was en-
countered. The operators are already
through the vein and propose to go on
% or 80 feet further, after the oxidized
ore which accompanies the base ore
The workings are in the right country
al last without doubt, and soon another
milling proposition VIII be developed IN
the camp.
Colonel Donnellan and Angus NJ. Can
non of Salt Lake and Jack Edwards of
Rock Springs, heavy stockholders in
the Wonder, were in camp Tuesday in
spectiag the strike in that property.
The gentlemen took samples and went
away much pleased with the outlook
The output of the Sacramento mine
during the past month has reached the
handsome figure of 1000 The mine is
looking better than ever, there is q
nice surplus in the bank and the
chances are that the mill win soon be
enlarged. The Sacramento is coming
TO the front
Fl. b. Windsor was in camp this week
writing insurance and inspecting the
Buckeye, in the Sunshine country,
where lIluCu NOIk IDS DcCll 0O11C- IL
is proposed to do considerable work in
the near future, as the showing is ex-
cellenl.
Work is being pushed on the Little
Pittsburg tunnel and the showing con-
tinues to improve. Those best ac-
quainted with the property believe that
il win be a heavy producer of both sill
yer and gold.
]. e. Douglass of Madison, Neb.,
gentleman owning mining interests of
value in Mercur, was in camp during
the week on a tour of inspection. he
was much pleased with the camp and
the prosperous air which pervades it.
L. c. Richmond, a mining engineer
from the lead and zinc regions of Wis
consin. is taking a practical course in |
cyaniding at the Geyser mill, prepara- |
tory to using the process in South |
America. He Will spend two months in /
getting on to the various curves Of the I
festive chemical.