| Show lEHCUH A GREAT CAMP A Hasty Glance Over Its Movements Durine the Year Now Ending I GEO DERN POINTS OUT SOME OF THEM Th Testes favored In I 110 Ilt of the stock lIn Es Imans71Hc1haticous In = Itenw Looking backward over the cinnKe that have taken place In Mercur Bin o ho George Dern the first of the year returned from the district said has Just today that the camp had made better I strides mail was now In condition great Plan at any other lime In Its entire history boom one The year has not been a bas been one said Mr Dern but It of steady and sjstematlc growth During Dur-ing the twelve months Just passed the town has grown wmderfully In population popu-lation I while many new houses have been erected In order that new comers mIght find comfortable habitations The year has placed Mercur on a more solid foundation than It has ever had and the deiopmnl 01 Its mines ties orbodl opnd up Our magnificent outside has become tile CA P list from the come Interested and Is now eagerly i booking Investments There are vary few bona fide residents of Mircur that i are unemployed those on the lillf listIng list-Ing transients who have dropped In from other camps In search of employment employ-ment The outlook for next year Is 1 great and the chances are that the amp w ill experience even more activity ac-tivity Ihan has chararlrlzl Its arn during the year now drawing to ado a-do doAt this Juncture Mr Kern went on to cite a few of the most Important movements move-ments Involving Meicur property during dur-ing the last twelve months He called attention to the consolidation of the serMailon Interests early In February Feb-ruary since which time the new company com-pany has paid tSIOOO In dividends This move was followed by the pale of the Brickyard group to Captain Di lamar the owner and promoter o t the Golden date properly In Igular order com nn Incra In the capacity of the Mrcur mill from 225 to oOO Ion a day the company which owns It having paid 1311000 In dividends durIng dur-Ing the year the December distribution distribu-tion marking the raising 01 the dividend divi-dend tram 121 10 18 cents n sharel Then came the most Important move 01 tile year the com mncmnt of the erection by Captain De Lamar of the great Olden Oat al mill Athich nlll have a capacity of too tons dally still will have cost when completed something In the I elghborh oed of faSOOUO This I plant Is I uradually nearlns completion unit will be Started up In the course if tile nt forty or fifty dalam Captain De LaMar La-Mar nol allslled with Ih vast ex tendlture of money for his gigantic milling structure then entered Into riiotlatlons with the Mcrtur company for a strip off the llesoluto No 2 nnd this he got by planking down a cool 123100 During the yenr the La rigilc people hae built a nice mill I at their prop erty on Ihi West Dip and tho Daisy min has bn ipoiously developed So that II now pr sonta a plendld hn11 anl ono which will justify the Erection of a mill on till ground Th Omaha has olso I md Sood develop mnl rhile the Overland 01 Sunshine Is I looiltiff better than II cOr did before tore Olanclnc towards Lion III11 we seethe see-the Northern Light in the full vigor of manhood ready to make a cpuit which 13 I table 1 to throw that property right In the very front This compan com Ileted a handsome mill early In the prlng and has been working Iowly all sear Improving Us holdings and getting get-ting Into the an bodies Now they are In a fair position to show them wUe und much la I expected o I them In the near future Tile Chloride Point has 1 also Asserted Itself and has a mill now In charoe ot crectionmlille the mine Is eadd to lie showing Rt ore bodies which will i enIll pay profits when tile mill Miuttuic Is completed novel ling to tho hall of the district the Silver Lode menu i a hold front and has opened up Immensely during the Yen under the aupcrlntndcnc 01 that IIhnJVn tit ning man Mr W C U Allen All In nil MOl cur Is I In splendid shape nnd promises to iniku even greater strides In the future than U has done In tile pail Ideal Star Ultldrml The Golden star Mining company nt the head of which stands that quiet and unaunllnq ronlloman Captain Timothy nlan Ions mad Its debut ana an-a dividend payer And on tomorrow the first lay ot its new Year rlwni cutter broadcast among those of its stockholders the Unpretentious sum of GOOa distribution carrying with It HID distinction of being the first from lold Mountain distilct The Golden Star under the ssteinxtlc management manage-ment of Captllin 1gall has 011111 worked lts I wTyto tile front And line Ins the past year Its prom have been greater than ovtr thus promptln the company 10 rom out os II doe 01 the present time and mk happ these 1 ho are fit possession 01 Ito tock Bond oti tile I olden Onto ritrn Ioii C It Schen and nnoclntea tin mn loa wcr rhreinlcled Yesterday ao hav Irg Inko a hand nn the Cannon group al Mrcur tile aba In fur ultimate Iai set SI Ion of the Golden date and to that end hap tlnwl I pnpern agreeing to pay JIGOOOO for the property should the development nf It provo story s-tory Mr hcneu len fi the district this morning and ere he return he will hale ordered n resumption of work on the ground that to date has been worked quite successfully by th Goldn Gale Extension Mining company com-pany There In I a shsdow of suspicion that Captain De Lamar the great mining magnate Is I silently Interested In these deals |
