| Show THE CYANIDE PROCESS Attacks Made on the System When First Introduced A GRHAT MINING CENTER WHAT A LOS ANGBLCS MINING IA FElt SAYS or SYLY LAKE Ones Its Present Prosperitj anti Its rroiulHliiK Future to 51aingTlie Fame of Utah llit Attracted Mln IIIK Men From 1 Over the World Return of Manager John Bern IteceKes u Cordial eleome Home HIM Visit Nothing to Do AMUi tho Humored bale of the Merciir Mini or VV ith Yn > Consolidation rIte et camp of Ilnndshur The Utah nnd nlciin Mili > nieiitx The Development if the Jersey Itlue The Silver King IXtensioii Ore inc Bullion Silver nnd Lend Milling Notes and Pcrsonalx I I The Cyanide Process and What i Has Done for Mercur would make a suitable subject for a lecture or discussion dis-cussion involving the acceptability of I new orocesses of ore extraction As a matter of fact the people of I this city should feel very thankful that such a system of ore reduction has been discovered as without i there would have been no Mercur today and consequently no Mercur mines nor any Mercur dividends nor could oui people ever boast of possessing the greatest gold camp ln the world Nearly all of the mining men of this city are acquainted with the history of the Mercur mine and the difficulties I I that were metwith and overcome before I be-fore the company was able to begin the payment of dividends In the first place a mill was erected for the purpose of working the ore by amalgamation but as the ore was not free milling the venture was a failure Afterwards when the outlook for the company was the most gloomy Gill S Pevton and Hal W Brown stumbled I onto the cyanide process and against a great deal of opposition locally they decided to try thIs system as a last I resort To do this they sent a carload of the ore to Denver and when they were satisfied that the process would work ther transformed the old amalgamation amal-gamation mill into a leaching plant and although they had some difficulty at first in working the ore down to a fine point it was not long before they were making a good saving In this citv while experiments with the cyanide process were under way Messrs Pevton and Crown were laughed and sneered at and were considered con-sidered as fit subjects for the Proo insane asylum and one Salt Lake chemist and assayer socalled claimed that cyanide would not dissolve gold and he crave a lecture to his class on this subject The fact that the Mercur has paid 5523000 in dividends within the past I few y ear while other mines have made a success on the same lines has long I ago dispelled any doubt in the minds I of the people of this city as to the success suc-cess and utilit of the cyanide process I pro-cess and it is more than likely that the above wellknown facts would not again have been alluded to I in these columns had it not been lor a little incident that occurred yesterday when Hall Brown in cleaning out an old desk happened to find an old copy of the Black Hills Times that was published in the year 1892 The Times in the issue referred to had corded a statement state-ment made bv Mr BrO and published pub-lished in a Denver paper to the effect that he had been able to save S3 percent per-cent of the assay values of Mercur ores by the cyanide process which he was doing at that time although a higher saving has since been made The article In the Times attacked Mr Brown in a roughshod mann rand r-and made him out to be a thief a blackmailer and a liar I stated that with the than I cyanide process no morl 40 i > er cent of the value of the ore could possibly be saved and then itt II it-t ent on to say that Mr Brown was the agent of the cyanide company and that he was paddlng his reports so that the company could swindle other people on the strength of his flowery statement But the article did not stop at this but insinuated that there was no such mile as the Mercur and that the Mercur company was a myth I i Of course Mr Brown and Mr Peyton were greatly maligned by such charges as these but the have lied to see j the day and they did not have to wait so very long either when the public at large is satisfied that the cyanide I process is aH right on Camo Floyd ores and to realize the fact that had I it not been for this process they would have had no Mercur today I There is a moral to this and this is Do not condemn any new process or I I I any new invention for the treatment I or reduction of ores until they have first been thoroughly tried |
