Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-01-07 | Page 8 | Great Saving Made by Mercur's Plant

GREAT SAVING MADE BY MERCUR'S PLANT The new experimental plant of the Consolidated Mercur company, which is now being carefully and thoroughly tested, gives every promise of being a complete success. That the new process will effect a great saving in values has been demonstrated and only the question ques-tion of its adaptability to the treatment of the Mercur ores on a large scale without increasing the operating expenses ex-penses out of proportion to the saving remains to be settled. Manager George Dern, who returned last night after witnessing several runs, said today that tests had shown the tailings, after treatment by his new process, to contain only 51 cents In gold per ton, while under the method of treatment now used the values on the dump range from $1 to $1.25 per ton. As the Consolidated Mercur mill handles han-dles an average of at least 1000 tons of ore dally, the significance of a saving of from 60 to 70 cents per ton can readily read-ily be appreciated. The tests will continue con-tinue for several weeks under the su-' pervislon of Expert George Moore, who designed and built the experimental plant which it is believed will this year be superseded by one that will handle the product of the great mine.