Salt Lake Herald | 1895-11-21 | Page 5 | Mercur is Growing

MCRCUR IS GUOWIXG It Is All the InlJc of SnIt Lake and a Boom is Scheduled Good reports of the growth of Mer cur continue to come in and all the mining men who visit the bustling camp bring back reports that simply serve to bull the market The interest is growing stronger every day and all stocks in the region have an upward tendency The fame of the camp has reached far outside the borders of I Utah A number of prominent men have come in from the far east have II been to the camp have seen and have I been conquered with the result that they have put in money and many have been rIchly rewarded for their enterprise The conservatism of Salt Lake business busi-ness men has been largely overcome V too This conservatism in the past has been a thing of note All through the money centers Salt Lake has had a widespread reputation for conservatism conser-vatism The feeling seemed inbred and it took the form of a declination to speculate in mines The reports from Mercur however have made I large inroads on this conservatism and a large number of business men have made investments there while others are looking for some excellent bargain that can be snapped up Real estate in the camp is jumping with a rapidity that would make a Kansas real estate boomer turn green with envy Town lots are In heavy demand de-mand as much on the part of speculators I specu-lators as 011 the part of men who want to buy and build