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Show having expended largo gums in development work, an endless number num-ber of prospects that promise to equal the developed mines, and an unbounded ore zone. The known boundaries of the district are extended ex-tended and the promise of the camp improves. The ores of the district are of a peculiar nature. They are low grade, gold bearing, endless in extont, and inexpensively inexpen-sively milled, yielding from $3 to $4 net more per ton than the ores of Cripple Creek. New buildings are . constantly going up, and such a boom is in progress as was never before known in Utah. Mercur is about sixty miles to the south and west of Salt Lake, between Bingham and Eureka. Eu-reka. It is reached only by the Union Pacific railway which daily carries throngs of wealth seekers to the camp, whose record bids fair to equal if not surpass any known mining section o the west Trains with excellent accommodations leave Salt Lake every morning for the camp freighted witht humanity and return burdened with wealth. 3VT 33X1. OXJXl- Phoenix-like she has arisen from the dust and debris of disappeared and forgotton Lowiston. The year of 1895 was essentially a mining year. The: hills around Butte yielded immensely; Cripple Creek greatly increased her output; extensive and wonderful, rich finds were made in Nevada, but by far the most important development of the year in the whole mining region of the West has been the wonderful growth of Mercur. The story of Merour reads more like a romance than a fact Twenty years ago the camp, then Lewiston, was1 quite prosperous aa a silver camp, and had a population of about 1,000 people. Two mines were extensively worked and paid several hundred thousand dollars in dividends. They finally failed to yield a profit in com-parison com-parison to other eamps. and the place was deserted, work only having been done in a desnltory way until in 1891, when a company of Nebraska people who has no experience in mining, bought a Mercur mine and began a series of discouraging tests to mill the. refractory ores with which the camp abonds . To the surprise of all, their researches were rewarded re-warded and a future undreamed of opened up for the camp, and within the past year, upon the identical site of the do sorted Lewiston, has arisen a city as if by magic, that today to-day contains 1,500 people, half dozen doz-en paying mines, at the head of which stands the Mercur with a record re-cord of $350,000 in dividends at the rat oi 925,000 a month, alter I |