Salt Lake Herald | 1895-11-21 | Page 5 | Was Not a Success

c WAS yOT A SUCCESS Hercnr People Have Fonnel it Un liroOtable to Reline Cyaniilcs For some time past the present management man-agement of the Mercur mine have been engaged on an experiment that I has attracted 8 great deal of attention f atten-tion among the Mercur miners and the smelting men They have been refining I re-fining the cyanides turned out by their mill with an idea of finding if they 1 could not do the work here instead of l shipping the cyanides to the Omaha o tnd Kansas City smelters a a been k tf ftlt the practice A plant was set up I therefore and some of the product was sent through i with the result that the management found i was too I costly the difference In cost being against the home refining Several I experiments were made but the result of all of them was practically resul same One or two more trials may be made but success is hardly expected I IS I possible that when the district becomes better developed and the output out-put is larger it will be possible to I make a refining plant profitable