Show OPERATIONS IJT CAMP FLOYD Increased Facilities For Handling tile Mereur Ore Mereur Mercury The completed cute and ore house at the Mereur is Q credit to the executive ability of George Verge The ore house will contain 200 tons ana the chute ds so constructed that the ors or-s distributed evenly therein In the mine chutes are so arranged s that the ore from all the tunnels about this Cute TOhlch 3s at the Mereur tunnel Is dumped tunnel and is all hand into the Mercur l had led through this chute The lower tunnels tun-nels of the mine are toeing arranged in a similar manner so that the ore with the s tat te exception of h Ruby will be handled through the Resolute tunnel where a I similar ore house and chute is being constructed simia structed under the superintendence of strcted Mr Edwards Those arrangements will the cost of handling materially decrease e cst lng the ore in the mine oe e workmen employed In the water tunnel recently bonded by Matt GiSborn struck a good tow this week which it is hoped Trail prove permanent If so a hope will be laid to connect with the Franklin line a distance of less than half a mile and the mill will be read to hal a commence leaching 5n a few days Work Omence leaching is also being prosecuted steadily in the Franklin spring where some water is being obtained obtaned beng men formerly employed on the TipTop Tip-Top at Stockton are hungry for a payday Stockon day w3ich has been due but sidetracked for the past sis months A Murphy is still working on his con tl Iurby I tract on the Gold Coin group north of camp but is malting slow rogrn cap mdnJ ylo u account or the hard lormation encountered encoun-tered EdwaiJds and Booth Wave ceased operations opera-tions for the present on the Mereur tailings te ins dump but will resume dn the spring when they can work to better advantage and make it pay F M Bhshop one cf the oldest assayers I I assay-ers of Utah arrived Friday to accept a position with the Geyser He has fixed the ass office up in fine shape a great change from rer times The contract for sinking the shaft on the Xo You Dont at Stockton another hundred feet has been completed ant adrift a-drift driven to the vein where good ore has been encountered The shaft is now down about 500 fetA fet-A rumor was current this week to the effect thait Durgy and Raddatz had given a lease and bond on the Lyon ground t i whose were unable some parties names we able to learn A X Butts has several men at work in the Golden Gate both in the south shaft and in the shaft which Is being sunk from the end of tunnel in the Grasshopper I i Grass-hopper ground Regular shipments are being made from the Honorine mine at Stockton A large station has been cut at the end of the tunnel and sinking of a working shaft commenced The ore averages Zo silver to fiO per cent lead and twenty ounces |