Show Making A Desert Bloom Community pride follows civilization tion everywhere Emphatic testimony of or this Is la I given in the accompanying picture which shows the family of or a mine mineworker mineworker mineworker worker at a ac cottage c in the Mercur l district Tooele county Utah where housing is something of or a problem owing to the rapid revival of or the once thriving mining community The camp which was virtually deserted 10 years ago now has a population of approximately 1000 persons with nearly 50 finding steady employment The higher price now paid vald for gold and im improved proved gold metallurgy are helping to bring the old camp back to life lire While numerous cottages have been built In this community since the revival many are still stitt living I In tents and trailers and a desert is beginning to bloom again A scant supply of or water seems to bo be bono bono beno no handicap to the industrious miners and ther families many of or whom carry water a considerable distance in order that their sur surroundings might be improved Th The little cottage above ab Ye with Its Ita lawn I flowers and shrubs has a back back- background ground of or sage brush and barren hills Nearby can be seen Jeen a tent where another worker hopes h ves to have a cottage soon Joon This is the manner in which much of or the west vest was built From such a small and seemingly slow alow beginning great industries and communities have been built which have returned rich rewards to its people Mercur was a great camp once and with present improved geology and metallurgy together with a higher gold old price the dl will witt reach even greater heights declared one timer old who returned to view the comeback |