Show RUSHING TO COMPIETIOX JHercur Mining Road Should Be Finished S Fin-ished Thin Week Z it is anticipated that by the end of the present week the Mercur Salt Lake railroad will be practically completed com-pleted and by the first of the year the new mill of the Mercur Gold Mining lilt Min-ing and Milling company should be in operation Everything is even now in readiness except the railroad and as the completion of this is necessary in order that the company can get Its ore to the mill the plant will not be operated oper-ated in earnest until after the first train has passed over the stretch of track between It and the mines The radlB of the road have reached the summit sum-mit of the hill and the big cut hast has-t been completed This completes the fP grading with tile exception of another V but smaller cut in the neighborhood of the Ruby Messrs Dern Airis Woodruff and eeveral others will go out to the camp this morning for the purpose of inspecting in-specting the mill and the mines They Co wlIl spend 4 few days there lJt it1 Woodruff 15 very much mtertited the character of the ore bodlesjpf h di t1ip 4 S 1 Donlling Up Its Proilnctlo I L Since the commencemerit of ri kohij operations at the new conidentrton bf the Horn Sliver aril theIncrease of the working force In the mine the shipments from the property 5airdoub ling up On Saturday nine carp of ores and concentrates were receiyed yesterday thirteen more car loads camerup Of these eight were coricen tfates and five ihlgh grade ores F l < g f First Sew Tear Contract neof the first if not the first of thelS95bre contracts to be closed up was that of the Daly W st whIch went teethe Germania The company does tfagree to furnish any specified uum hereof tons during the coming year but does contract io send Its entire production to the smelter named > Eureka nui JUll Water being again somewhat short the forty stamps of the EurekaHlll mill arenot always in commission the arterY more usually consisting of thirty of the crushers Mr Packard went out to the property yesterday and will probably spend several days in the camp The Keystone and Eu rekaHill mines are again toeing worked work-ed after thefsliort Christmas lay off = Alice BuHloii Received A 12bar shipment of Alice bullion was yesterday received by walker Brothers Banking company Itsvalue was 17360 Metal Market There was still no change in the quotations quo-tations of silver and lead and settlements settle-ments by the smelters were made on the basis which has beenln force since Saturday 59 cents for silver and 3 for lead No London quotations were received Docs Not Interfere With Operations The granting of the temporary injunction in-junction restraining the Marion Gcd Mining and Milling company from ex rtracting ares from the ground m dispute dis-pute in the case of Gisborn anti others against the Marion people has not had the effect of interfering with operations opera-tions at the Marion The mill Is toing operated to its fullest capacity and the usual shipments of cyanides and bars are being made Of course the company com-pany is not taking out any ores from the disputed territory having sometime some-time ago blocked out great bodies ofi high grade rock in the Marion property MaJcinKT n Good Showing Foreman Leighton of the Sunshine was in the city yesterday having come ItO spend the holidays with his family ily The gentleman says the property is showing up better every day and the continued developments are but demonstrating the fact that onehalf the riches of the mine has never yet been discovered Two shifts are being worked and some ore taken out and thrown upon the dump which now contains in the neighborhood of 10000 tons of milling ores I Fergmsons Salty Story The selfrighteous assertion of Tom Ferguson while on the stand yesterday in the police court that he would not go into the mining deal because it was not honestthe Siskiyou mines purchased pur-chased by the Mercur people having been salted caused a ripple of amusement amuse-ment The witness did not explain how it would be possible for the mine to have been tampered with in view of the fact that H W Brown personally superintended the extraction of 15 tons of ore from the mines and the Craw ford mill at the Eagle foundry saved 10 for every ton The new owners of the property are not worrying they blinded did not go into the deal with their eyes Ore and Bullion Receipts McCornick Co yesterday received Hanauer bullion 4100 silver and lead ores 520600 I Wells Fargo Co received Pennsylvania S Penn-sylvania bullion 3895 T B Jones C received Germania bullion 8900 7100 silver and lead ores i Walker Brothers Banking Co reedy j i ed Alice bullion 17369 I Total ores 29500 b lon 32464 |