Show MERCUR IS HOPEFUL negotiations for tile the sale of some of ita large properties correa Prill evence ti T il Al cicur CleUr nov a 10 the excitement or of ill alin elec election tin lit Is over anil and tills this ramp camp ila lias a settled down to business on once more demonstrated its loyalty loyally to to silver by casting only nifty seventeen voles fo for r mckinley but it will probably lie affected lems than llian almost tiny ary other camp in ill tile state slate liy by the defeat or of silver of coulse had bryan been elected matly many of the abandoned silver in tills this distinct distl lct would have been 3 but pringle here arr are shedding no na thais over tile hie result there etc aio already signs that thai eastern capital will see seek in estment in some of tire promising rol roli poll I properties of mercur T thear hese properties will doubtless lie ile more pt in the I 1 future than they now novy are arc or would 1 lie a under lire flee en on oil account of the low arke or of maid bals anil and the possible further reduction in ili tile the price of labor two twi or three laige deals are arc already under consideration the particulars of 0 which cannoa yet yel tie lie anade public avdy l one la Is feell ni confident that flat a larre nt if nork mill ili lie lone done in life hie tamp tills this viN inter not lot only on partially developed de del eloped pic but upon new as jell it la Is not lint ex cx that any mills will ile bo erected this birster lal r loft but the early spring will ivill undoubtedly see flee ark begun on oil mills for the golden gate gale and gold cold dust and probably pio Pia bably tho the er if the ore body is in period opened 0 up enouf enough h 1 in n this ibis mine hy by that ilia t time till BROOKLYN I 1 among mon the no new properties upon chich work is ill to ire be commenced within it a few days Is tire lie brooklyn kroup group tills this kroup group Is controlled by the owners of the Glad gladstone glone which milich it joins and of which J W cory Is manager work on ahe lie gladstone la Is also to he hastened by the aid of it a sixty norm horse power engine which hill I 1 11 be here in a rew few days and placed at the main shaft of the mine shaft Is now dou down n 10 feet fact it I Is ahe intention to sink to a ileith of feet it if paying ore Is not i cached beached at a less distance another shaft on the gladstone haw has been sunk feet feel feet of low grade ri abc ore has been bae passed brough in it this shaft some of 0 it assa inar i as high as 3 5 per ton the affairs of the company are now in good and work on the gladstone and brooklyn groups j hilll III be prosecuted vigorously this i luter GOLDEN GATE BATE there la 18 renewed re activity at the die golden gate an ali additional foice of thirty men has been put pitt to work in fit the mine anti and a number of outside ira tire are under way allay the hoisting engine at the east shaft is lie ire ing replaced by one of sixty horse power er till this will till lie he the main hoisting shaft of the mine the mill site bite being acine about feet vy un the hill from the lh shaft the sees amen to continues to surprise the camp by the extent and richness of its iti ore bodies another i ilch face of ore was struck a few days aso ago which runs over 0 to the ton alth occasion at al samples which run much higher the sacramento certainly lias has a a bonanza in and velh ill the enlarged rapacity ty of the mill fill will nill brove a big dividend payer paver within a short time the geyser also sit lick a fine body of 16 ole oie within the last few das dabs which Is a showing up well ell the geyser has probably got tho the cost of mining and milling Us its ore down donn to lo a lower point than any other mine in ili the camp although to accomplish acco this they have had cappers lappers up a great many woi kings |