| Show i NATIVE QUICKSILVER FOUND I Accident at the Geyser and Also on Lion Hill I Hi I I Mercur May 19 While working on 1 the Moonstone yesterday the boys 1 found a small pocket of native quicksilver 1 i quick-silver There was not so much of it as to make the find valuable but It I i suggests the possibility of more being found in the near neighborhood The j i Moonstone joins the Marion on the I 1 west and covers part of the old Carrie i j I i Stele ground from which some very I I I rich silver ore has been taken in the past I Is likely that considerable I work will be put on the property this I summer as it has never been prospected pros-pected to any extent I is the property prop-erty of Maer and Carr of Mercui and Powers Straup Lippman of Salt Lake City Superintendent Benner has returned from his Nevada trip bringing a lot of very fine samnles of free gold The country where he has been Is In the big I bend of the Truckee river He is well pleased with the country and thinks it will bear investigation I is probable I that the parties he represented will build a mill there If further Investigation Investiga-tion shall confirm surface indications There is a large extent of territory and the vein is well defined Free gold I abound s in the district and with i bly proper facilities can be mined profita blyAndrew Andrew Johnson while working In I the Geyser this morning was struck over the eye by a piece of falling rock and a deep sash cut in his forehead I His wound was dressed at the hospital I and he will probably be all right In a few days While snaking logs on Lion hill yesterday I yes-terday J Jorgensen met with a serious and perhaps fatal accident He was I leading the horse when the log which lit was snaking caught and the chain I broke The horse fell on Jorgensen and it Is feared the young man has been injured internally He was I brought to Mercur and Is receiving all the care possible In the case |
