Show F ST Hartwig A Cohen Arrives Fresh from new fields where he has been sampling and deciding the fate or t u another proposition which is being urged upon Capt De La Mar Hartwig A Cohen president and general manager i d man-ager of the Con Mercur came In from 1 the East yesterday and will devote S I Y J several days to the bonanza at Mercur Of the property with which he has been I rU In dally communication however remote rj re-mote his whereabouts Manager Cohen i says that certainly the physical condition U i condi-tion of the property was never better I and while It Is settling down to a condition S con-dition In which the base ores or gold S bearing sulphides are In the preponderance S J preponder-ance they are as easily treated as were S fJ J the oxidized and afford a better average aver-age Again the earnings of the Company sl Com-pany are such as to enable it tb maintain S Jl main-tain n nice surplus while providing for the usual dividend and that Its shares J should have been permitted to recede to S J their present position In the marketS market-S S 1 does the mine n gross Injustice With It S the unloading of certain Interests inS In-S the East and that with the recklessness I tJ reckless-ness of a roue he could understand howl S how-l the decline had been Influenced however S J how-ever and that they have Anally sold out S i 1 JB cause for not a little congratulation S i l The story that Capt De La Mar contributed f i con-tributed to the unloading Is practically without foundation as reference to the Sl transfer books In the local offices of the I 5 company discloses for of the dividend In which goes out quarterly nearly two thirds of the sum goes to the Captains bank account J l address and into his S The new copper refiner which la being Si 1 i be-ing erected at a cost of nearly 1000000 I t4 by the Captain out of New York willS will-S i be ready to go Into commission say Sir Cohen within about sixty days i when the forwarding of bullion from < the Bully Hill smelter in California will S li begin while the new strike In the Do I f1 La Mar Nevada mine Is proving up most satisfactorily and will be Inspected 5 1J Inspect-ed by the visitor before his departure S for the West Mr Cohen returns after I J an absence of five months In excellent i health and prepared for an active winter win-ter in the diggings |