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Show REBUILDING A COMMUNITY -( - - ;- --. v-'-'j-. -''' ' "' r -- ... - '.c i teeming at the beginning of the silver excitement in 1ST0, only to be practically abandoned until the discovery of gold ore a few years later. Records of the United States Geological Survey place the value of production from the dictrict at $19,093,000, only a small fraction of which was ever paid in dividends. divi-dends. Owing to the low grade character of the ore most of the production went for labor, supplies, equipment and taxes, with little left over for distribution. The greatest great-est period of activity was from 1901 to 1907 when such mines as the Consolidated Mercur, Marion, Sacramento, Sac-ramento, 'Delamar, Sunshine, Daisy and LaCaigle were producing gold. Power and water has been an important im-portant factor iu reviving the district. dis-trict. The Utah Power and Light has rebuilt its lines into the camp at a cost of approximately $150,000 aud water is pumped into the desert camp from Ophir Canyon, 8 miles away. W. F. Snyder and Sons, and the Bothwell interests both of Salt Lake City have taken the leading part in placing the district back on the comeback trail. Higher gold price and scientific achievement of private Industry have combined in breathing new life into the old ghost town of Mercur Mer-cur In Tooele county, thereby restoring re-storing for the state a huge and profitable industry. Five years ago Mercur was a ghost town. Its huge dumps, miles of tunnels and a few remaining building walls were the only mute evidence of days gone by when the district supported a popoulation of 2500 persons. Today Mercur is well along the comeback trail, mines and mills are humming; a town is being rebuilt and approximately approxi-mately 250 men are finding steady employment ln: a camp which was considered "through" for many years. The accompanying pictures show the huge "dumps" of the old Consolidated Con-solidated Mercur Mining Company and the Geyser Marion, together with new cyanide plants in which the ore is being treated. The Consolidated Con-solidated Mercur dump contains approximately ap-proximately 4,000,000 tons of ore which it is planned to retreat for the small amount of gold remain ing. This has been made possible by the increase in the price of gold to J35 an ounce, compared to $20.07 when the district was in its heyday, hey-day, and the advancement in goid metallurgy. A method of counter-current counter-current decautation has been era-ployed era-ployed in the mills with a gratifying gratify-ing degree of success, after the expenditure ex-penditure of approximately $500,-000 $500,-000 in machinery, equipment, development devel-opment and supplies. In addition to the tailings several million tons of ore have been blocked out in the Mercur Hill, Golden Gate, Brickyard and Geyser Marion- properties. The ore was exposed in reopening several thousand thou-sand feet of old workings in these properties. Hugh pillars and blocks of. ore were opened up that were too low grade for handling under the- old price of gold and crude methods of treatment'. Much experimentation ex-perimentation is still being conducted conduct-ed and every effect is being made to keep the district going on a permanent basis. The Mercur district, known in the early days as Camp Floyd, was |