Show MILL FOB TEL DAISY Grading For the Plant to Begin I Today Or Tomorrow Mercur March 10As predicted in The Herald the approach of spring witnesses I wit-nesses the commencement of operations of mill for the Daisy on the erection a mi Dais I During the winter everything has been I I prepared to make this noted west dip property aJiroducer Plans were drawn I I by John Shea last fall but the pur th chase of the liuckhorn mill has made I it necessary to make some changes and Mr Shea Is at present busy makI ing the necessary alterations Experiments have also beep made in leaching the ore which have proven I highly successful The machinery on the ground consists con-sists among other things of a first class engine and boiler a large Blake cass I crusher Wall rolls grizzlies screens and elevators The only thing lacking is leaching tanks and the building Work will be commenced Friday or I Saturday in grading the m > llsite and as the company has the necessary means on hand for building there will I be no delay in pushing the enterprise to a finish I is estimated that not more than C000 will be necessary to I complete the mill McCartney Jenkins have commenced I com-menced work on the Utonian group which lies east of the Edna May and has pome good surface indications Gill S Peyton has a force of men at work on the Badger group near the mouth of Lewiston canyon Three shifts areat work and a nice vein of low grade ore has been encountered I I hastbeen definitely decided to commence com-mence work on the electric line to the Chloride Point on Monday V V The Mercur Dividend I The Mercur company at its regular monthly meeting held yesterday declared I dared its usual monthly dividend of 18 cents a share or 36000 payable on I the 21st inst This is dividend No 38 and when paid will bring the total disbursed by the company up to 994000 being only 6000 short of a round million which is an excellent showing for a mining enterprise enter-prise that was laughed to scorn in Utah mining circles less than six years ago and which has been managed by Nebraska tenderfeet a Messrs Dern Alrls Peyton and Brown were then called which showed that even a corn husker if he has grit and a little good judgment can make a success at min V V h ing a It Is not always the veteran and experienced miner that comes out on the top of the heap in mining enterprises enter-prises The Mercur Is a great mine and the pleasing feature In regard to Its future is that there Is noW more good ore insight in-sight In the property than has ever been taken out of I besides which the company has a large area of virgin ground to draw from in years to come Burning of the Deadwood Smelter Omaha March 10A special to the Bee from Deadwood S D says Fire starting from an overturned pot of molten slag entirely destroyed the plant of the Deadwood and Delaware smelter There was little fire protection protec-tion and the building burned without interruption Several > cars belonging to the Burlington arid Elkhorn roads were destroyed also a bridge on the Burlington tracks The loss to the smelter company is put at 230000 with insurance of 5100000 The railroad losses are about 10000 Four hundred men are thrown out of work at the smelter and a number of mines will be shut down Dr Carpenter Car-penter the local manager says the smelter will be rebuilt Silver and Lead The silver and lead quotations yesterday yes-terday were as follows Bar silver 54 cents Lead brokers 3C5 exchange 372 Copper lake 1187 casting 108iy Ore and Bullion I The ore and bullion receipts yesterday yester-day were as follows McCornick Co ores 10100 cyanides cya-nides 19200 T R Jones Co bullion 11100 ores 7500 Bamberger McMillan ores 8017 I I Mining Notes and Personals Hon Theodore Bruback was In Tinti yesterday on mining business The Swansea mining company paid its regular dividend of X5000 yesterday J Eissnmann one of the owners of the Magnolia at De Lamar Nev is in the city Judge John G Gray is in Tuscarora Nsv looking after matters connected with the Dexter mine and mill The Four Aces assessment Is being well paid in and favorable reports of late have been received from the mine Captain F M Bishop the well known assayer has moved his ottlce from West Second South to 156 South West Temple street TimesReview Tuscarora Nov The I water Is out of tho Young America East shaft and the men will probably be set I to work In the bottom tomoriow Hon A W JlcCune one of tho most successful mining operators in the west has returned from a visit to Europe where he spent the winter with his family fam-ily ilyPat Ryan has returned home from the east where he has been on business connected con-nected with tho Crown Point Mining company com-pany which he states was batlsfactory and successful The directors of the BullionBeck held their regular monthly meeting yesterday but the board failed to declare a dividend as some thought would be done routine business only being attended to The Dalton directory held Its regular monthly meeting yesterday but did not levy an assessment as anticipated although 1 al-though The Herald Is Informed by one of the officers of the company that one will I be levied in due time H Fitzhugh M E has returned from Ferber mining district In Klko county Nev where he has been for the past four months doing assessment and development develop-ment work on promising properties in which he Is interested Brig and Olllo Young have arrived in the city from Clifton district In the b ClgeO oulg nwg I Deep Creek country where they have been at work all winter In the development develop-ment and operation of a group of claims In the vicinity of Gold Hill owned by I N Dtmyan on which with others they have c bond and lease Bulletin Mountain Home Ida After a great delay on the road the machinery for the Dixie cyanide mill arrived here last Thursday since which time teams have been busy hauling It to the mine H will not now be a great while before the mill will be In running order and then Dan Ileber will I show the world yhat a I f hy or6 good thing there Is In the Gold King mine The fire which threatened the office I and works of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting company Wednesday did but little damage and the company will not be hindered in the performance of its I rerular work The loss to the comnanv will not exceed over 2 and the large I sampling room was not injured In the least The lire was caused by the faulty construction of the ash box and the floor I of the building was injured in places In speaking of the Checkmate mine In Willow Creek district Idaho owned by Utah men the Iearl correspondent of the Caldwell Record says The Checkmate mine has been during the past 3 days opening uu new ground and has cut a chute of ore equal in value and size to the first ore body found on this claim The company will soon begin sinking a i shaft A very fine assaying outfit has been placed on the ground Soon as the roads become good and solid they will ship ore The mine will without a doubt work a large force of men very soon Independent Elko New Mr J H eland was in town today and reports the finding of a large body of hsh grade copper ore on his Copper Queen lode qlt uated on the east side of Lone mountain The new ore bodr was encountered In adrift a-drift which he Has been driving on a vein heretofore rather narrow hut which has suddenly I opened out to a width of about I four feet all of which is solid oxide of copper estImated to run full 40 per cent In addition to the copper this ore carries values ranging froml2 to SiC jer ton In I gold and silver As this new ore i Jay well for shipping to Salt Lake Mr Wel land expects the property will soon be on a paying basis Quite an Important find was made a few day ago In the Highland Boy minI In Carr Fork gulch BIngham and Man ger Weir has at his otce In the Me Corick block a specimen of copper ore from the find that Is good for sore eyes as the Eaylng Is The strike If such I can be called was madq Ir a crosscut being I lel 11 driven in the 11t body of ore in Xo 5 tunnel and consists of a sixInch streak of ore that win average from 5 to C per cent copper besides some in Told while In the center of this nay streak there is an inch or more of pure copper glare which will run i S por cent fonnn to the ton Ore of this character is a rarity in Bingham anu is an nustrauou of the possibilities of this sand old camp I The Highland Boy Is shipping about Sdi tons of copper are wetidv 10 thc Salt Lake smelters besides which it is matting regu f Ii sW lChg INI llS iar consignments of goll bullion rCd I cyanides a cleanup of the latter being I counted upon by the first of the wc k Mr Weir is well satisfied with tho workings work-ings of the mill and is sanguine that this enterprise cessful will prove to be V eminently sue |