Show Sampling for Consolidation The task of sampling the New Mer cur the Gold Dust Rover and Silver Sil-ver Lode at Merucr to determine the basis on which each shall be admitted to the proposed consolidation is now going on under the direction of Vivian P Strange the wellknown mining engineer en-gineer who will have as an alternate none other than Capt Duncan Me j Vichle former superintendent of the Golden Gate group of that camp The woYk is necessarily slow said Mr Strange who came In to attend court yesterday and in that it is unsafe to Judge of values by the appearance of the ore the closest assaying Is required Again he has found the workings on some of the properties listed for the consolidation more extensive than was expected with what appears to be ore of good milling quality more extensive than the public has been led to believe What the result re-sult of the examination will be Mr Strange said it was impossible to anticipate antici-pate although conditions look favorable favor-able to another Mcrcur proposition of noL a little merit Mr Strange will leave for camp again this morning |