Show t 1 L Will be Here With Experts This Afternoon I WILLEXAMINE CON MERCUR i j With a View of Placing its Stock on 1 tho London Market Ore and Bullion Bul-lion Settlements for tho Month Amounted to 51880305 Octobers Dividends Were 299000 Another t An-other Strike in Shocbridgo Bonanza Final Payment of 818000 on i Illinois Swansea Dividend Notes 1 A message from Denver yesterday schedules the arrival In Zion this afternoon after-noon of John Hays Hammond the eminent emi-nent mining engineer who abandoned tills country some years ago to climb to the top of the ladder In South Africa Af-rica Accompanying him Is his workIng t work-Ing croW all clad In their dlggin I hoots and ready to Inaugurate their labors in this State before the close of the week The arrival of the distinguished visItor vis-itor from abroad was preceded yesterday yester-day by Thomas A Richard a mining engineer of equal stature on this side of the water and a gentleman who headed the experts by whom the fate of the 10000000 deal involving Strat ton3 Independence at Cripple Creek was decided Mr Rickard was met at the Knutsford hotel by Hartwig A Cohen president and general manager I of the Mercur Consolidated of Merctir and after a hasty conference separated separ-ated to renew their consultation today Although It is not generally known and while the local olllcers of the bonanza bo-nanza have been as dumb as the proverbial pro-verbial gate post concerning the arrival ar-rival of their guest Mr Hammond and his associates come to Utah at this time for the specific purpose of sampling sam-pling and finally passing upon the merits mer-its of the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines company This It Is known la preliminary to the Introduction of Consolidated Mercur to the stalwart Investors of Ixmdon and ether European Euro-pean centers and the listing of Its shares upon the board and bourse of those countries The gentlemen come at the solicitation of the most prominent prom-inent Investors abroad and with the consent of Capt De La Mar who controls con-trols the proposition By local mining men the work of the visitors will bo followed with liveliest Interest and while t csult of Mr Hammonds observations may not bereleased at this end of the line the efforts of the I local mining world to render his sojourn so-journ and those of his associates a I pleasant one will be none the least zealous He is 1 no stranger within the gates ot Salt Lake having been at onetime I one-time prominently Identified with interests inter-ests in the Coeur dAlene country |