| Show daysMAlTG MANNING MINING MATTERS Increased Activity in the Vicinity of the Mercur Hill Manning April 15The new end is being rapidly added to the Mercur mill The last of the material arrived this morning The tanks are being placed with all possible haste The crusher is all ready to place on the foundation which is now constructed Fred Barton Bar-ton who has the contract states it will be three or four days before he will commence the work Foreman Trimmer says it is his intention to shut down for several days while the crusher is being placed as he is going to raise the engine some and also wall up the boilers Mr Hutchinson of Salt Lake is out today taking the measurements for the wlro which is to be used in lighting the mill and the companys houses with electricity The Mercur company has purchased the dynamo used in the Grand Pacific hotel in Salt Lake I has been shipped and will reach here tomorrow evening The work of construction con-struction will be nushed with crrpat m rapidity Development work is going steadily on in the Crown Point The incline I shaft Is down 45 feet and the last five feet has been in I ore averaging 5 The I trouble with the Mercur parties seems I to be settled for good The case will I come up at Provo on the 28th instant I but it generally thought the Mercur ites will not appear j Timothy Morearlty the veteran pros i I 1 rector and mining expert has bonded I the Easter group one of the most promising properties on the east dip to eastern moneyed men for 90 days for the sum of 12000 He informs your correspondent that there will be three eighthour shifts put to work in the development I de-velopment of the same immediately Tim was elected mayor of this town at a recent election held here His part ner William Uncle Morgan was unanimously elected judge at the same days time They will both qualify in a few daysWork Work is being rapidly pushed by two day shifts on the Minion property which is onehalf mile west of the Mer cur mill The company is sinking a shaft and driving a tunnel The shaft is 23 feet deep and a body of fine looking look-ing rock has just been encountered The first blast in the rock disclosed the fact that it contained a small cave No assays have as yet been obtained but the stuff presents the appearance of being all right The tunnel is about 45 feet long being mostly in a hard formation Some very encouraging assays says have been obtained The company i com-pany will not drive the tunnel much farther but wil Isink a wlnz from the interior I |
