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Show THE MEHCUlt MILL. TWO MONTHS WORKING HAS DEMONSTRATED DEMON-STRATED ITS SUCCESS. Thousands of Tons of low Grade Ore in Sight in the Mine Resumption of Work on Stockton Properties Mines and Mining Men. A mine iu this territory that is making a large production and yet is seldom heard of is the Mercur, at Camp Floyd. A mill was built on the property last spring to work the ore by an amalgamation process, but it was not a success. Two months ago a cyanide system was put in, which has been more than ordinarily successful, saving tpiitc '.A) per cent of the value. A Cob-raulo mining man who paid a visit to the Mercur this week was seen at one of tie-hotels tie-hotels today. He said not only was the mi a great success, but the mine was a very rich one and ought to be a producer fur at least twenty years. There is a solid bed of quartz ten feet thick, laying almost Hat, that w ill assay -?1T to :.') :t ton in gold. The extent of this flat deposit of auriferous rock is almost unlimited, ami it can be mined and miiicd for less than '." a ton. The mill is at present working tifly tons of ore a day; and the. company is so well pleased with the re-suits that it is considering the question of quadrupling quad-rupling its capacity. Today's Ore Receipts. Hvilioi. Ite k l.lt-lieoe K. 'V. T 5- ii igidatid b1"- I.v.l -l.-n ket " Austin -V I J Total : - . - Stockton io!es. The camp of Stockton is quirt, and nearly all of the work is being done by leasers. There is some talk of several of the mine.-, w hic h made records cars ago, being started up again, but it is mainly rumor w hich can be traced to mi reliable source. One of these j is the llonurinc. I A contract for bi feet of drifting has been let on the Calumet by the Silver King company. com-pany. The mine has a good show ing of carbonate and galena ore, and could with systematic development produce considerable. consider-able. The most actively worked property in camp is the Bullion, on which sinking and drifting is being done. The shaft is down :J.-o feet, and a strike was made last week in a drift fifty feet from the bottom. The vein is four feet wide aud a drift has already been ruu on it fifteen feet. It is reported on good authority that work on the Bunker Hill, which has been closed dow n for a time, will be resumed next week. The Hercules, which has also been idle for some time, will start up again next w eek. There is a shaft in this mine 150 feet deep, the bottom of which is all iu good paying ore. A mining man w ho came iu from Stockton last night said there were many opportunities opportuni-ties to get good paying leases there. Mines and Mining Men. Henry M. May of Bingham is in the city. Kiclrard (Sundry a Stockton miner, came in from that camp last night. Messrs. llyde and Beck have gone to Eureka Eu-reka to remain a few days. James K. Matthews, foreman of the Ccn-tctiuial-Eureka is at the White House. There are 175 miners either working on their own claims or for wages in La Plata district. Miners all over the territory are doing their annual asseesment work; this is the last month. Some thousands of tons of ore have been piled up in the bins of the Eureka Hill awaiting the arrival of the new railroad. There is between two and four feet of fnow at the head of the Cottouwoods, and the last storm not heard of. A typical prospector, one driving his own burro, on which was packed his entire worldly possessions, passed through the city yesterday bound for La Plata. |