Show successful quicksilver enterprise the shoshone quicksilver mining company of salt lake operating in nevada 1 is meeting with gratifying success in carrying on its enterprise and from all indications will soon be on a good paying basis recently some very fine samples oi of binni bar ore were received from the mine and are now on exhibition in the companas comp anys office in the mercantile block these samples are large and some of them are very rich in their quicksilver content they came from the batom of a forty foot where the vein has been cut for a distance of fifty two feet without determining ter mining its width this body of cinnabar cinn ibar will assay all the way from 2 to 50 per cent quicksilver and there is a steady improvement as depth is attained the company now has nine retorts in commission and is tre treating eting in the neighborhood of pounds of ore daily which will carry from 5 to 8 per cent quicksilver the daily output of the retorts is from four to seven flasks flacks of quicksilver the flasks flacks hold seventy five pounds and the quick on the catl lake market sel s at per flask it will be seen therefore that the company is even now on a self supporting and profit making basis it is the intention of the company to put in n a big furnace this summer and thus materially increase its output twelve men are at work at the present time at the ret retorts orits and in mine development and it is estimated that enough ore is now in sight to keep the present reduction plant in reg ular and constant operation for a period of two and a half years at least the officers of the company are frank davis president W C davis vice president and W J davis secretary and treasurer |