Show MERCUR MITES the marion mill is in running to its in full capacity and recently started to run amiday the same as tile tho judge visits ophir on business busl nei but he be does doe not stay slay edg and is invariable needed at home henry prosser Pr of the prosser house reports report business ai as being good ile he has a first class hotel anil and Is ia well patronized colonel wall we would like to bear tome oina more of that water supply train from ophir creek let lab it come over and marcur will bo be all right john mcfarland of 0 tile mercur marcur hotel I 1 atypical whole mining milling camp man and every everyone one who Koua goes to the ramp camp should cultivate his bis acquaintance the now telephony telephone line from baird switch to will take almost a direct course us as it runs across the valley and then straight over the mountains between the two valleys A force of men are at work putting in a now line of telephone from FaIrlie ld witch switch to eureka it will take them several everal weeks to complete the line out when dono done it will bo be a great improvement the linemen aro are at present camped ut at tile witch switch tile herour mill runs through tons tauaa a day and ym yet iho blus bias are lull full tu to overflowing when we cuu laer elder the tit v ideals the compary pay thoro there not be much surprise at this but tile the teams have to haul their loads tour miles and over a mountain divide tou loo so no tuure there aru are quite a number employed at this alone the mercur mine Is working forty fony turee men we were recently shown through the mine and with their six tunnels naela tu nut numerous nerous drift ir inclines and shutes autes the bill is literally honeycombed immense bodies badica of ore are in aich and it is i easily loosened so that the supply of ore lor for the mill is ii readily gotten to we tiiu a aur ur face several men are arc cons constantly tautly employed in ia placing larger timbers in the tope and pulling in place e now new air bunda As before mentioned in villa rma J W booths aud J F V edwards ed wards have at lease on the tha mercur mill dump the gentlemen named have unready three tanks lor for la Is ching chaug in ove operation ration and alter liral cleanup clean up will probably put la in thre a more the tanks and catch trough are so as to admit of nine wore more tanks being put in and then tile tho leavera leaders can run tous uelia gha day aney are ef ct twenty five live ton capacity each tank anti and their labor amoun amounts to comparatively nothing lhing so the boys boy have only to run tae cars care to the ihu tanks tank turn on the ibe water pul pui in fit the iho amount of cyanide over and above the damn already contains con lalus and leach it mhd ore from which they will get ut at least fl per iper ton tile the dump Is i an immense one anil and if crushed a little wore more may yet proven prove a veritable bonanza in ia itself at present there are five men working but the tha I 1 force orce will be increased to eight or ton ion in the near future F from rom our regular correspondent quite a number of our boys are going to salt lake next week to attend tile the fair and con conference feren oe john McP arlaud gave quite a nice dance and supper last friday evering everybody had a good time Therall road men mea have pitched their tent teat very vary close bose to the mine and it looks look as a though they meant business bus loess arthur goodale Oo odale a young man employed at the mercur mill died last ladt sunday night wath typhoid fever and was burled buried lash I 1 tuesday aba bouby donby that was stolen from the buys boys at the will has been bean found one of the men that worked ou on the road having etalea it lie flo was soared iota into giving it up anu and got thirty days in the county jail I 1 proportion are being madil made for a big dance to be held at social hall on saturday oct jtb A valuable pot pet dog belonging to mr storehouse Mors hougo sprang at a child of M mr barker biti biting ngAt it through the lip and in flitting wounds elsewhere the dog doff was immediately killed notwithstanding the low prices price of sliver silver and load lead the ophir hill mining property emp employed mp loyes its ita full furco force and every everything thing it apparently p parent ly ruts runs steadily the road from here to stockton ton are lined with teams as it a result not prospecting or leasing Is boine being done in camp at present except the st clair boys boy who are on their claim on lion and oliver ouke duke and C orton who are leasing property adjoining theLlo abe lion abline mine each party ure high grade ore tho ray mr hooper was appointed to preach la ia ophir hall last friday and pre caration pa ration rations wore made for the but tha reverend gentleman failed to appear such disappointments are common from preachers here hare on sunday mr arrived to ia town from mercer and an bounced that he be would preach in tho the afternoon and henceforth every alternate sun bun day afternoon ou or Wedi uday the dinst a dome demo orallo cratic primary inary ws was held in ophir hall 1111 and delegines were ivere elected to the county convention which convenes con venoa lu in tooele thoele on the it was duo due to mr dal tons bard rust linic that brought together to tether enough democrats us as to that convention mr and sheets the loading leading officials at ilia abut t meet ing aft have hitherto been strangers to politics lu in ophir ophar mr 8 bithell the mail carrier and mr lurking larkins prominent old time democrats were pro present protect tent oraha from another correspondent it has not yet boon been decided whether tho the ditch to carry ster from ophir creek over tho the divide to the sunshine property in mercur will bo be built this ibis fall or not the mill runs rues through on an average ave rug tons loir a day which maies about fifty tons of concentrates the remainder rema tuder I 1 is washed out on an the ilia dump alls walls patent rollers rol lori and cru crushers do good work the mill is kept in operation night and day I 1 there are over thirty men tit at work in the mine and too ten in the mill run t by y col wall besides the atie number of u teamsters kept hauling between ophir und and Term terminus though chouch there is no room for any one else applicants applicant uro are not needed but all the men in camp are kept employed generally |