Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-06-12 | Page 6 | A Low of Mercury

A FLOW OF MERCURY Valuable Element From i Sacramento Retorts I UNCLE SAMS SHIPMENTS Lower Mammoth Nearing 1200 Foot Level I The Day on tho Mining Exchange HoncrJno Tunnel Pushes Through Bad GroundCopper Market The retorts with which the quicksilver ores of the Sacramento mine at Mercur nro hnlnc reduced arc In operation and mercury Is uow being made to add to the earnings of the company whose dividends 1 divi-dends are being paid with the regularity of each recurring month The undertaking undertak-ing Is a simple one and Inexpensive the ores that arc reduced to a quarter mesh passing Into the muffles from which latter the volatilized contents are I piped off deposited In a tank and cashed for market the tailings that show a valuation of 12 to 15 gold going Into the cyanide tanks and through the usual process of leaching The commercial com-mercial Importance of the undertaking having been demonstrated It Is the Intention In-tention of the management to open up the ciillckncarlng chanel an yste matlcally as has characterized developments develop-ments In other portlonu of the mine thd to that end a crosscut Is now being run from the level 100 feet below the Mill tunnel level to tap the channel on Its dip Jn the meantime there Is enough ore at this time with which to sunnlv the furnaces Indefinitely the ores now going into the retorts maintaining main-taining an average of about 15 per cent mercury with a line gold average Already the company has designated its sales agent while local consumers have expressed a readiness to give the local product which is quoted at 77 cents a pound on the New York market mar-ket the preference In the new industry I Indus-try the mining man is already manifestIng I manifest-Ing much interest and Its development will be closely followed