Show Mercur Mercury Notes John Zehrung one of Denvers wide awake mining men was in town this week Investigating its merits Ho was greatly pleased with the outlook There seems to be quite an excitement In the vicinity of Twelve Mile Pass and a large amount of development work will it is anticipated be done there this winter A contract has been let to sink the shaft on the Elko group tOft a further depth of 120 feet making riO in aggregate aggre-gate The company will place some treasury stock on the market Chipman is preparing to ship several cars of ore from the Gold Point The ore in this property seems to be considerably con-siderably spotted running in many instances in-stances very high and making a good shipping average There are reports of a good gold strike on the hill east and south ot the Lion Hill but as yet we have no authentic particulars hero is no doubt however but that the Camp Floyd gold belt lays over the silver deposits in that section as well as here Developments at the Guelph are encouraging en-couraging W E Hubbard reports ore of milling quality in all the openings of which there are now several In the original cut which has been considerably extended good ore is obtained and the ore is becoming darker The company is preparing for extensive development A ttsndeiioot drifted into camp the other day and went to work for Bishop and Gillespie who have the contract on the Gold Dust They showed him how to thaw powder by heating a shovel placing a layer of earth thereon and putting the power on it After a time he had occasion to thaw some powder heated the shovel red hot and dispensing dispens-ing entirely with the earth placed the powder on the shovelten sticks in a bunch The powder didnt do a thIng only go oft before he was ten feet away Strange to say the tenderfoot didnt get a scratch though the concussion jarred the hat from his head But the contractors con-tractors are minus a shovel |