Salt Lake Herald | 1897-11-20 | Page 3 | Mercur Mercury Notes

I I Mercur Mercury Notes I A Murphy has purchased a two thirds interest in the Hornet group from Charlie Hales and A F Fox for a substantial consideration The group comprises three claims and covers cov-ers the extension of the Seal vein on the north and east I H A Woods has again put a force of men at work on the Independence group north of Ophir canyon A whim has been put in place and sinking will be continued from the bottom of the incline which is now down 170 feet Northeast fractures regarded as excellent indications by mining men in I this camp are being encountered in the Seal and Aaluesof 210 have been had I this week Manager Murphy is i feeling I much encouraged Michael Grant an employee of the I Mercur mine met with a serious accident I ac-cident Friday He touched off a round f of four holes and only three of them I went off After waiting only a few minutes he went back to his stope and bent over the missed hole just as it I exploded His face chest and arms I were terribly lacerated and his eyes were badly injured He was taken to I the hospital at Salt Lake the same i I I day and the doctors hope to pull him through without the loss of his eyesight j eye-sight I Most of the machinery for the gas plant of the Golden Gate mill has arrived ar-rived and is being put in place the dust chambers and the flues are finished fin-ished and the immense smokestack is I being erected the brick shaft house above the mill is in course of erection I and the machinery therefor is on the I way two of the dryers are nearing completion all the structural steel has been received except that for the upper I level and the work of putting on the iron sheeting was commenced Wednesday Wednes-day I