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Show FAMOUS OLD HP m hukmoh The last carload of rails from what was once tho Salt Lake & Morcur railroad was taken to Salt Lake last week, says tho ISitreka Reporter. A few carloads of tics are hurled In tho vicinity "f the abandoned town of Morcur under about three feet of snow, but there is no longer long-er any railroad to the town. "If vou contemplate visiting Morcur now." said the former general manager of tho road, "take a bed, food aim matches with you. There is nothing In what was once tho famous gold camp or Utah except abandoned houses." The old mill at Morcur has been dismantled dis-mantled and tho machinery shipped away. The camp was one that prospered pros-pered for about half a century and those who called tho town In the mountains homo for so long arc loth to admit that It Is entirely a thing of the past. "Thero Is a lot of gold there yet," said ono of these old-timers, a few days ago. "There were several reasons for tho move that has been taken, but modern mod-ern science isn't going to leave the gold there. Tho mine will be reopened. The old mill was above all of tho gold that will be worked in tho future, If It is worked, and for that reason should have been torn down, anyway. Tho railroad, too, was of light steel and unsatisfactory. In time, and not In the distant future,, cither, thore will bo a now mill, a now railroad and a new, live Mercur that will not be abandoned." |