Show THE END OF CON MERCUR famous utah company clos closes es its mine and mill on march the consolidated mercur mines company of mercur utah ended its long and fruitful career careen this was largest gold producer its operations were famous the world over some twenty years ago the district bad a boom at which time some slick promoter induced a crowd of nebraska farmers to part from some of their coin in return for stock in the mercur property these men had no experience in mining and their first visit to the property was not reassuring for it was thought that they had surely been swindled the only market for the was the unsuspecting and innocent tests made on some of the unpromising looking ore at omaha revived the interests of the owners who returned to utah and formed a merger of the principal properties under the present name the company was organized in july 1900 the mercur mill was the first successful cyanide plant in the united states and when the large 1000 ton plant was built it was the last word on gold milling the mine has produced tons of ore and has paid in dividends 34 15 from the production of about 1 15 5 worth of ore of late years the company has been treating ore running a little over a ton the life of the mine has been prolonged several times tim e S by new discoveries the town of mercur was dependent on this industry and wi WEI 1 l now be deserted among the men who have been connected with this property were hal W brown gil S peyton john dern E U H airis victor clements H S cohen D C jackling george H robinson duncan macvichie frank G janney captain delamar anu and many others who have since be become come well known figures in the western min mining ing coed we hope later to find space for a more de detailed tai led history of the ni millins illin treatment at this plant |