Show T REFINERY Gold Bars Wil Take the Place of Cyanide Shipment i Special Correspondence I Mercur March 2The building for the refinery at the Manning mill is wen I I under way and It wJ be but a short time before Professor Burfeind wl be turning out gold bar The process 16 slightly diferent to anything being used at present andgas frt tried at the Marion mill about two years ago when a small experimental plant was put in and a lot of cyanIdes treated successfullY The illness of Mr Bur feind put a stop to the experIment but s ce that time the process hM been perfected and tests made by chemical experts bear out the Investors clams that the cyanide can bb successfully 4 I treated by this method while eli danger ger of poison from asenlcerete hy drgen is done awaywih Should a I tual operations prove successful i Is plan likely that all the mills wi adopt this Although thrown out considerably by I the inclement weather the lIercur has been makIng god progress hi the e i plortJon of the lower veins The new r inclne has reached the lowest Yen above the sliver ledge and a drift is I being run along this vein How far thIs wilt be driven Is rather Indefinite but it will be used to explore all three of the lower vein and from it Upraises up-raises wIll be made and crosscuts run east and west to explore the count I I iias been found that the rock in I the lower parts of tle mIne Is harder than that found above and a soon a a dynamo and compressor can be put I in opertions wi be carried forward by machine drills The electricity will I be furnished by the Jordan Narrows company I is not expected tat a dynamo can be obtained before April a the various factorIes where electrical ma chiner is manufactured are so far behInd be-hInd their order that not less than sixty days will elapse from the time the order Is placed until the machine is turned out The levy snow has effectually stopped all outside work and leaves the ore In bad condition for leaching When the mill Js In operation how ever 400 tons of ore are put through I daily I |