Show MER MERCUR CUR TO BE MADE A PROOF FIRE CITY Mercur will rise like e a phoenix from rom Its ashes said Manager James F. F Marshall of ot the Union Mercantile compan company com com- pan pany at the Windsor r toda today Mr 11 Marshall has come In from Mercur Mercur Mer Mer- Ier- Ier cur In re regard ard to the adjusting of ot th thIn thin tho In Insurance ur urance nc on building and stock of ot the general store of or which he Is 15 at t the head lie He says that if the company Is allowed the full amount of insurance insurance the they will ill still sUiI b be losers h by OOOO He has a scar on his rf right ht finger which he obtained In rather 1 a peculiar way v Thirty hours after alter the lire the safe was broken open Inside It was a steel l box In which the cash was kept Out o of one of or the money bags during the haste with the money moncy had been thrown I Into the safe a dime slipped lIpped to tine Uie the bottom of ot th the the box box Mr Ir Marshall picked It Il up but Immediately dropped It It raised a blister on hl his linger fInger This was wasa a day and a n half af art after tor r the fire had been extinguished sand and tends to show how what a terrific degree des of or heat there must have been The city will be r rebuilt upon a more substantial basis than It was bc before ore said al Mr Marshall There 1 is Ig talk of having all the buildings mc metal tal protected This would make them slow combus combus- tion We Ye have a good little fire department department department depart depart- ment in Mercur I dont don't believe that If we had the Salt Lake Lale City department we e could have checked ed such a a. conflagration conflagration gration a we had If we had started blowing up buildings with giant powder ller eo we ml might ht have saved more of W camp It is a terrible thing though that blowing up o ot at buildings This continuous explosion of cannon crackers makes me nervous In r recalling It The people are now becoming rc reconciled reconciled recon recon- con con- to the and putting Jutting their shoulder to the wheel We 1 e e will have a greater mining camp than we ever had pad All the stores are fitting up as fast tast as they can Some are doing business In I tents Others ha have moved Into vacant I buildings monuments of the boom days o of five live years ago ngo when the town was overbuilt o Dt Before tore the fire Mercur was better belleI than ever evel before There The was not an In Idle man In the camp and about GOO people had steady employment Tho The mill of the Sacramento mine which was burnt down about a 3 year ear ago will start startup startup up In a few ew days It will employ about sixty men I 1 We will start to build a new store for the Union Mercantile company I right away Before Deore the fire we were enJo enjoying enjoying en- en Jo Ing the most prosperous business that w we have ha had In two years r I I have brought down the company's books here as there was no suitable place to work on them In ht Mercur We Ve will start the business of at adjusting on Saturday SAYS INSURANCE LOSS IS NOT MORE THAN Frank M. M A Avery very o of Denver representing represent represent- ing Ing- the Fire Association of or Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia was seen at the Knutsford today The total loss Joss b by the Mercur lire will wll amount to probably The loss I to the Insurance companies will be something something- like The buildings are nearly nearh nil all adjusted by bj this time and will be entirely within the next wee week Ie The merchants are already alread commencing ing to rebuild and restock In m my the water supply of Mercur was entirely Inadequate to cope with an any kind of ot a fire Ore that amounted to any any any- thing |